Catchers Quotes - Page 2

• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the Catcher in the Rye' and 'Harry Potter'?

  Moby

  Children, Gun, Assault Weapons

  "imo". moby.com. December 29, 2002.

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• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Literature, Knows

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

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• Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Memorable, Missing

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

  Mike Piazza

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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• The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

  Ty Cobb

  Swings, Psychology, Bats

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• I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Kids, Boys, White

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• I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Friendship, Alive, Want

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• Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Hope, Flower

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

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• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  Rahm Emanuel

  White, People, House

  "Rahm blames McCain for bringing up race" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. August 27, 2008.

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• To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Boys, White, Stories

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• I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

  Ethan Suplee

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fall, Kids, Say Anything

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 1951.

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• If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

  J. D. Salinger

  Body, Holden, Catching

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Liars, Lying, Literature

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

  J. D. Salinger

  Goodbye, Hate, School

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• I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Inspiration, Kids

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 22.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Money always ends up making you blue.

  J. D. Salinger

  Money, Blue, Ends

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

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• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

  J. D. Salinger

  Success, Boys, Games

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

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• It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Sun, Afternoon

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

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