Quotes About Catchers

#1. Mention in baseball's official record books, however, requires that catchers play a minimum of 156 games in a season,

Mark S. Halfon

#2. All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

Stephen Rodrick

#3. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

Pete Rose

#4. I cried with pride as I looked into the face of a midwife from the next generation of baby catchers.

Peggy Vincent

#5. The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

Roger Angell

#6. The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

William Hazlitt

#7. Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers.

Tim Ingold

#8. A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

Pete Rose

#9. 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

#10. I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

Jorge Posada

#11. The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

Joe Garagiola

#12. 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

#13. When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

Pete Rose

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I'm in love with dream catchers. I collect them from every trip I take.

Gillian Zinser

#17. These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.

Jen Campbell

#18. The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life.

Alan Lightman

#19. Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

Casey Stengel

#20. Bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.
(this book is for those who know this to be true)

Jen Campbell

#21. I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

Dhanush

#22. A place where we all go can't be bad.

Robin Williams

#23. Rights are in the power of the people.

Ken Starr

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

Casey Stengel

#25. The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.

Colson Whitehead

#26. The game has never seen a better catcher than YADIER MOLINA.

Tony La Russa

#27. Your bone shall remain
Your flesh shall remain
Your spirit shall remain

Kat Beyer

#28. You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

Casey Stengel

#29. 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

#30. She'd taken one look at him the first time they'd met and it was like her body had just erupted into a ball of heat and hunger.

Katie Reus

#31. But as my dear friend and relationship sponsor Louis CK has noted, divorce is always good news because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce.

Amy Poehler

#32. I've seen things that I don't understand but that nonetheless delight me - Addison Goodheart pg 74

Dean Koontz

#33. I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

Rachel Zoe

#34. When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

Leven Rambin

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

Joe Garagiola