36 Quotes by Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get out of.

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

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

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

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.