Johnny Bench Quotes
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Dickson, Paul. Baseball's Greatest Quotations. HarperCollins, 1991, p. 39.
Statement made in response to Jimmy Carter's technical arguments about the economy at a Teamsters convention in Ohio.
See Robert Burton {596290} for an earlier view with which Jefferson was probably familiar.
Johnny Lee Bench is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career, which lasted from 1967 through 1983, with the Cincinnati Reds, primarily as a catcher. Bench was the leader of the Reds team known as the Big Red Machine that dominated the National League in the mid-1970s, winning six division titles, four National League pennants and two World Series championships.