Catchers Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. 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 some things back.

  Maya Angelou

  Yoga, Heart, Rainy Day

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• Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.

  George Johnson

  Science, Hands, Boxing

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• Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

  Nolan Ryan

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

  Emo Philips

  Baseball, Dad, Hands

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• I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

  Madonna Ciccone

  Lonely, War, Book

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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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• What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a catcher of souls! We are workers together with God, says the apostle. If God has ever so honoured thee, O that thou knewest it, that thou mightst bless his holy name, that ever made such a poor fool as thee to be a co-worker with him. God has owned thee to do good to those who were before caught. O my soul, bless thou the Lord. Lord, what am I, or what is my father's house, that thou hast brought me to this?

  Thomas Boston

  Father, Men, Names

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• People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Weather, People

  "The Ballad of Michael Crabtree - it's catchy" by Ann Killion, www.sfgate.com. January 11, 2014.

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• I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

  Juan Marichal

  Curves, Balls, Want

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• The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

  Russell Hoban

  Zoos, Freedom, Animal

  "The Turtle Diary".

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• No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

  Ron Luciano

  Running, Brother, Umpires

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• Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

  Ron Luciano

  League, Perfect, Knuckleballs

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• Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

  Joe Garagiola

  League, Streets, Majors

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• When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

  Tim McCarver

  Mean, Giving, Use

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• I used to think I was like the wicket- keeper, which is like the catcher in base- ball, y'know what I mean? You can call the play a lot from behind the plate, y'know what I mean? You're not necessarily the star, you're not the one that makes the mark, but usually in the end, you're called upon to get a run when it's needed.

  Eric Idle

  Running, Stars, Mean

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• My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

  Kirk Gibson

  Ideas, Waiting, Quality

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• You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, House

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• The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me. I didn't feel like any other person had read that book. It felt like my secret. Writing that I identify with feels like it's just me and the writer. So I hope that whoever is reading what I do feels like that.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Reading, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.

  Roy Oswalt

  Feet, Complaining, Tape

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• 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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• When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Book, Blow

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Want, Dinner, Firsts

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