Catchers Quotes

• Catchers, they know everything that's going on, on the field. He's a pretty enthusiastic kind of guy. He's a hard worker and I think with young players, you've got to stress the fundamentals and hard work.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

  

  Freddie Highmore
  • Helping
  • Happens
  • Favorite

• 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
  • Critics
  • Sentences
  • Variety

• I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Crazy
  • Catchers
  • Holden

• I'm sure it's going to be a challenge for him. But the way I look at it is, last year, we went through seven catchers. That was a challenge in itself. If I can get through that challenge, I don't think this year will be too bad.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Way
  • Challenge
  • Catchers

• The players have been aware that they were going to be involved with this for a while now. But we're taking three catchers for a reason. You can't expect to catch this much this early without getting sore. Fourteen pitchers is another obvious thing. As for the players, we'll take things on an individual basis. For example, Ken Griffey told me he'd be ready to go.

  

  Buck Martinez
  • Reason
  • Players
  • Catchers

• Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

  

  Mike Piazza
  • inspirational
  • Forget
  • Wanted

• Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

  

  Mike Piazza
  • School
  • Hard
  • Natural