Best Lefty Quotes & Sayings

Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty — Kerrelyn Sparks

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one. — Lefty Gomez

Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared. — Waite Hoyt

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him. — Lefty Gomez

She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors! — Wes Anderson

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. — Gillian Flynn

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner. — Lefty Gomez

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300. — Lefty Grove

It is not a good idea, either, to attach material such as Krystal Flash or Flashabou, then trim all strands at one spot. This gives most of the reflectiveness at one location - where the strands were severed. Instead, clip off the strands at different lengths along the entire body - that way you'll see little sparkles of light throughout the pattern — Lefty Kreh

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville. — Rick Danko

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. — Robert Breault

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous. — Lefty Gomez

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one. — Lefty Gomez

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. — Lefty Gomez

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage. — Lefty Gomez

I always ask my dad, 'Why wasn't I a lefty?' Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good. — Serena Williams

I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings. — Lefty Gomez

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy. — Mel Tillis

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore. — Alan Moore

I'm Dave, by the way," he repeated, flashing his best smile. "And you are - ?" The man looked up at him, dark eyes pondering over the meaning of a name. "Nawat. Means left-handed." David beamed. "Hey, that's cool. I'm a lefty, too." The man turned back to the fire. "I'm not." "Ah." All right, then. — E.E. Giorgi

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield. — Lefty Gomez

Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had that just let them deal. Even her mother, who got involved in every lefty cause she could, seemed to be able to shake it all off at the end of the day and enjoy life. But the evil in the world, everywhere you looked, was always on April's mind. — J. Courtney Sullivan

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?" — Lefty Gomez

This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap ... Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy ... Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot ... — Daniel Woodrell

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues. — Vince Cable

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. — Mickey Mantle

I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one — Lefty Kreh

Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which suddenly sees its approach. As the small fly get nearer, the fish moves forward to strike, but the tiny fly doesn't flee at the sight of the predator. Instead it continues to come directly toward the fish. Suddenly the fish realizes intuitively that something is wrong(its never happened before), so it flees until it can assess the situation. An opportunity for the angler has been lost. — Lefty Kreh

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood. — Chris Hayes

I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race. — Pete Seeger

Only triple I ever got. — Lefty Gomez

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed ... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends. — Josh Charles

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot. — Lefty Kreh

It's better to be lucky than good. — Lefty Gomez