36 Quotes by Johnny Bench

I never got to face Guidry, ... and the only way I want to face him is if he's throwing underhand.

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. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

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

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games – if you count exhibitions – and I’m overpaid!

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

I can throw out any man alive.