Inspiring Quotes from Legendary Baseball Catchers

"When you get up to the plate, nobody’s there to help you. You’ve got to do this on your own."

- Ichiro Suzuki

"A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished."

- Joe Torre

"You may not think you’re going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything."

- Hank Aaron

"Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, ‘You’re never going to make it.’ I appreciated their honesty because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation."

- Mike Piazza

"Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have."

- Jim Abbott

"To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments."

- Ken Griffey Jr.

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."

- Bullet Bob Feller

"There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn about and say ‘Watch me’."

- Bryce Harper

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time."

- Don Zimmer

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."

- Derek Jeter

"You can’t let the failures get you down. Learn from them, stay positive, and never give up."

- Buster Posey

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something."

- Nolan Ryan

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."

- Ted Williams

"The catcher is the leader, the agile athlete who can think as well as react."

- Mike Piazza

"The catcher is like a brave captain facing the foes."

- John McGraw

"A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one."

- Miller Huggins

"A bad catcher can make a great staff average. And a good catcher can make an average staff great."

- Robby Wine

"You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living."

- Roy Campanella

"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."

- Babe Ruth

"When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time."

- Carl Yastrzemski

"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."

- Elston Howard

"If you’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job."

- Brooks Robinson

"If a ballplayer is satisfied, he’s going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve."

- Nellie Fox

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."

- Satchel Paige

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

- Maya Angelou