Johnny Bench Quotes

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

I can throw out any man alive.

I want to win, but there's the grind. There's so much responsibility for a catcher...My arm feels good. My legs will be all right. How long will I go on? How long can I go on? How long for I want to go on playing baseball? Is this what it's like to be thirty?

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid!