Catchers Quotes

• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.

  Miller Huggins

  Sports, Dog, Team

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• No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Hot

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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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• The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

  Roger Angell

  Different, Great Things, Overlooked

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

  Johnny Bench

  Middle

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• If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Believe, Intelligent

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• A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

  Bill Dickey

  Baseball, Jobs, Yankees

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

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

  Mike Piazza

  School, Balls, Knees

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• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Holden, Moron

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• 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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• You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Balls, Ifs

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• When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

  Joe Torre

  Brother, Years, League

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• I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.

  Mike Matheny

  Life, Motivational, Baseball

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• Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Hope, Crazy

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

  Joe Garagiola

  Running, Blow, Yankees

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• A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

  Max De Pree

  Baseball, Team, Ideas

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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Future, Yankees

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

  Tim Wakefield

  Nice, Way, Trouble

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• Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Two

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• I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Holden, Catching

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

  Judd Nelson

  Dream, Growing Up, Impact

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Benches

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• The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

  Amy Tan

  Reading, Influence, Forbidden Things

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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