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There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to. -- Johnny Damon
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch. -- Rabbit Maranville
I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time. -- Al Kaline
Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot. -- Ivan Lendl
Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer. -- Tom Shales
There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away. -- Rahul Dravid
I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power. -- Barry Bonds
The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit. -- Jerry Rice
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business. -- Tommy Henrich
If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else. -- Bill Dickey
I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor. -- Carol Bartz

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