A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

- Bill Dickey

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

- Casey Stengel

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

- Casey Stengel

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

- Ethan Suplee

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

- Johnny Bench

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

- Justice Smith

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

- Libba Bray

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

- Mickey Cochrane

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

- Sparky Anderson