Johnny Bench Quotes

• There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

  Johnny Bench

  Inspirational, Baseball, Honesty

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• A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

  Johnny Bench

  Softball, Baseball, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

  Johnny Bench

  Baseball, Bed, Slumps

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• The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

  Johnny Bench

  Catchers, Middle

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• So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

  Johnny Bench

  Expectations, Yeah, I Can

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• I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

  Johnny Bench

  Sports, Thinking, Comeback

  "The Most Utterly Comprehensive List Of Exemplary Poeticisms — Be they great, inadvertent, or unsound — As Uttered by our most Esteemed Exemplars And Guardians of Popular Culture". Article by John Reed, logger.believermag.com. November 26, 2014.

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• They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

  Johnny Bench

  Winning, Oklahoma, Games

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• You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

  Johnny Bench

  Mean, Player, Looks

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• Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

  Johnny Bench

  Fighting, Wind, Games

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• Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

  Johnny Bench

  Good As It Gets, Pudge, Wells

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• I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

  Johnny Bench

  Player, Horny, Bars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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