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

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based tackling team, and we want to hit that strike zone just like you're throwing fastballs into that catchers' mitt just as hard as you can.

It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.