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

  Johnny Bench

  Middle

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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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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• 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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• When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.

  Bill Murray

  Baseball, Fall, Kids

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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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• It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fun, Stuff, Sometimes

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

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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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• 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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