Best Catchers Quotes
62 Catchers quotes by 51 unique authors
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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…
— Tom Hayden
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When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
— Tommy Lasorda
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The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted…
— Russell Hoban
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Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about…
— Moby
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I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a…
— Madonna Ciccone
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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…
— Bob Uecker
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked,…
— Marisha Pessl
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To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
— Ryan Phillippe
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Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were…
— Tim Walker
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye'…
— Libba Bray
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My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the…
— Mario Batali
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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…
— Don Cooper
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I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I…
— Tim DeKay
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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…
— William Hazlitt
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show…
— Rahm Emanuel
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I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I…
— Jon Meacham
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
— Casey Stengel
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You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
— Casey Stengel
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
— Amy Tan
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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's…
— J D Salinger
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I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.…
— Barry Lyga
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The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
— J D Salinger
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Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I…
— Kami Garcia
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Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and…
— Robert Graves
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Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe…
— Cassandra Clare
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