Catchers Quotes - Page 4

• There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.

  Kevin Towers

  Thinking, Inventory, Sometimes

  "Q&A: Kevin Towers, Diamondbacks GM". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. December 26, 2012.

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• It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

  Rob Thurman

  Moon, Land, Names

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• Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

  Kami Garcia

  Fall, Reading, Tired

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.73, Penguin UK

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• We made too many wrong mistakes.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Mistake

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.36, Workman Publishing

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• I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Falling In Love, Looks, Fiction

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.9, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

  Gump Worsley

  Funny, Jobs, Hockey

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• And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Kids, Thinking

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Want

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• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  Barry Lyga

  Eye, Past, Land

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Book, My Best Friend

  "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429, 1972.

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• I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

  Pete Rose

  Rose, Watches, Benches

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• I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

  Kenneth Cranham

  Teacher, School, Orange

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• When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

  Cole Hamels

  Missing, Curveballs, Okay

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• Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, New York Yankees

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• Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

  Robert Graves

  Daughter, Bird, Singing

  Robert Graves (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Book, Kids, Arms

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• When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Dream, Yankees, Years

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• I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Couple, Two

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• Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Love Life, Arrows

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• My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

  Mario Batali

  Jobs, Kids, Three

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• That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

  Don Cooper

  Brain, Hey, Pitching

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• He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

  Tom Hayden

  Dog, Believe, Fighting

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• Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Book, Games

  Michael Chabon (2003). “Summerland”, Thorndike Pr

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• Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

  Steve Hamilton

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

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