Baseball Catch Quotes

#1. Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

Mordecai Brown

#2. As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Ernie Harwell

#4. Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

Johnny Vander Meer

#5. I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

Sargent Shriver

#6. And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick all the cheese off your cheeseburger.

Raymond Chen

#7. 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

#8. The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.

Thomas Boswell

#9. I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.

Joey Lawrence

#10. When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

Darin Erstad

#11. While I'm no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no hitters, there was also nobody there to catch.

Jarod Kintz

#12. Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

Edgar Guest

#13. I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

Don Larsen

#14. I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Rachel Griffiths

#15. Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

Tommy Henrich

#16. I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Salma Hayek

#17. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Ernie Harwell

#18. I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

Willie Mays

#19. Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

Paul Ormerod

#20. The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

Joe DiMaggio

#21. There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Leo Durocher

#22. I'm able to mentally adapt to things very well.

Justin Cole

#23. Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

Yogi Berra

#25. I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

Beverly D'Angelo

#26. Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long.

Tucker Elliot

#27. Nick moved over. "You smell like a fucking vodka bottle."
"Sweating out my sins, my friend."
"Lots of sins.

Cari Quinn

#28. Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Pete Rose