Tybalt, You Rat Catcher, Will you walk?

“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of…

— J.D. Salinger

I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher…

— Jane Fallon

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher,…

— Ron Luciano

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

— Johnny Bench

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

— Ubaldo Jimenez

It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.

— Chelsea Handler

“He humphed and grabbed a carton of milk, then chugged directly from the cardboard spout. Mallory and I watched him, the same grimace on…

— Chloe Neill

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

— Johnny Bench

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too .…

— Burleigh Grimes

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

I don't really look at the catcher at all. I think you steal bases off the pitcher.

— Trea Turner

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

— Casey Stengel

Any time a guy gets hit, it's between the pitcher and the catcher, the manager, whoever. Whoever's decision it was.

— Marcus Semien

I want to throw my best pitch and I want to throw it a certain way, regardless of where the runners are. But it…

— Patrick Corbin

It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My…

— Rob Thurman