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“Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.”

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Author:Freddie Highmore

“I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.”

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Author:Kenneth Cranham

“When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.”

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Author:Cole Hamels

“Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.”

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Author:Ubaldo Jimenez

“Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.”

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Author:Kirk Gibson

“I used to think I was like the wicket- keeper, which is like the catcher in base- ball, y'know what I mean? You can call the play a lot from behind the plate, y'know what I mean? You're not necessarily the star, you're not the one that makes the mark, but usually in the end, you're called upon to get a run when it's needed.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.”

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Author:Roy Oswalt

“There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.”

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Author:Kevin Towers

“Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!”

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Author:Red Buttons

“My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?”

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Author:Emo Philips

“You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.”

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Author:Chelsea Handler

“Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a local dog catcher election.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.”

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Author:Alice Hoffman

“[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.”

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Author:Rob Lowe

“The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there's not a nick, not a blur, there's not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I'd rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it's signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail.”

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Author:John Larroquette

“The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me. I didn't feel like any other person had read that book. It felt like my secret. Writing that I identify with feels like it's just me and the writer. So I hope that whoever is reading what I do feels like that.”

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Author:Rowan Blanchard

“I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.”

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Author:Jon Meacham

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

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Author:Johnny Bench

“The future ain't what it used to be.”

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Book:What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

Source: What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”

Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

“I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”

Source: The Yogi Book

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

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Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”

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Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”

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Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

“The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.”

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Author:Amy Tan

“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”

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Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

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Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

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