Johnny Bench Quotes

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

Johnny Bench

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
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  • Birth: December 7, 1947

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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Joan D. Vinge

TimeThinkingEndEarthWillMay

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

Michael Bolton

MeInfluenceProudMentorsSinger

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

Stana Katic

FoodMeComfortKindSoundReal

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

Su-chin Pak

GoodMusicBelieveValuesLookBand

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

Tone Loc

LifeYouKnowTalkMeanReal

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Martin Scorsese

PeopleGoSeeAnywhereEitherMany

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

Michael McKean

KindEvenBenign

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

Miranda July

WritingGenerationFriendsLetters

During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times.

Mitt Romney

TogetherGovernmentDownCongress

This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.

Jason Kander

YouCountryPlaceStayGotInvested

My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing.

Dianne Reeves

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If somebody goes, 'You should go to 135,' my heart's just not into it.

Demetrious Johnson

HeartYouGoJustSomebodyShould

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