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

- Johnny Bench

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…

- Johnny Bench

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

- Johnny Bench

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was g…

- Johnny Bench

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 m…

- Johnny Bench

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 p…

- Johnny Bench

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

- Johnny Bench

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

- Johnny Bench

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

- Johnny Bench