Quotes About Johnny Bench

#1. I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Sparky Anderson

#2. 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

#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. Johnny Bench
befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).

Gary Carter

#5. That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.

Johnny Bench

#6. Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

Johnny Bench

#7. There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.

Johnny Bench

#8. I can throw out any man alive.

Johnny Bench

#9. There is no greater learning process than to teach.

Robert Muller

#10. I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

Johnny Bench

#11. Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

Jimmy Demaret

#12. All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Megan Chance

#13. It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

Johnny Bench

#14. I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

Johnny Bench

#15. In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

Andrew Bogut

#16. I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

Joelle Carter

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

Johnny Bench

#18. These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.

Johnny Bench

#19. Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

Johnny Bench

#20. I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

Edward Abbey

#21. October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment - when the Big Red Machine became a dynasty by defending it's World Championship from the season before.

Tucker Elliot

#22. Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

George Crabbe

#23. It's a little sobering to think that everyone we have ever seen, or will ever see, will someday be dead. And it's depressing to consider that this may mean absolutely nothing.

Wayne Holland

#24. The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

Johnny Bench

#25. How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.

Johnny Giles

#26. You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

Johnny Bench

#27. You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Johnny Bench

#28. So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Johnny Bench

#29. Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Bench

#30. Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games
if you count exhibitions
and I'm overpaid!

Johnny Bench

#31. I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

Johnny Bench

#32. Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a terrifying sense of freedom and no energy or innocence left to enjoy it.

Leah Reader

#33. My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.

Johnny Bench

#34. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

Johnny Bench

#35. Liver spots are mature freckles..

K.j. Force

#36. A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

Johnny Bench