Baseball Catcher Quotes

You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

If you're going to cheat, it's better if you don't get caught.

Swing at the strikes.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

I guess I've got a smart wife.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

I can't concentrate when I'm thinking.

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.

Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.

Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.

You can get old pretty young if you don'ttake care of yourself.

Losing's a great motivator.

I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

Nobody did nothin' to nobody.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

It was pretty good. Even the music was nice.

He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

I don't mean to be funny.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

Doing the little things can make a big difference.

The game isn't over till it's over.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

What the hell is wrong with him now?

Its getting late early

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.