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

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country. — Lefty Gomez

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

I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be. — Abigail Disney

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

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen. — Lefty Grove

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

In East Bangor, Pennsylvania (population 800), there's a little diner named for the trolley that used to take people to the once-bustling steel town of Bethlehem. The proprietors have adorned the walls with photographs of other local things that are no more. There's one of the East Bangor band, a group of about twenty men and boys, in uniform, in front of a bandstand draped with bunting. There's also one of the Kaysers, a local baseball club, on the day of an exhibition ballgame against the Philadelphia Athletics. These were Connie Mack's A's, which team in those early 1930s featured Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove. How did a village of under a thousand people manage to have its own band? How did a cluster of slate-belt villages field a regular baseball club, apparently good enough to stay on the same field for nine innings with the Philadelphia Athletics? What — Anthony M. Esolen

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

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it. — Lefty Gomez

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

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes. — Lefty Gomez

Number one rule, attend to business — Lefty Grove

When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars. — Lefty Gomez

I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes. — Lefty Gomez

It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing ... — Gudrun Ensslin

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. — Parker Posey

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further. — Lefty Kreh

I don't know. I've never been on second before. — Lefty Gomez

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death. — Lefty Gomez

Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly fishing vest that attaches to the hemostats or line clippers is often plated with chrome, giving off flashes of light. Some fly boxes that you wear on the chest are also bright aluminum-not a good idea. I recently fished with a fellow who wore a bright yellow hat on a meadow stream in Pennsylvania. From 100 yards away you could see his every movement,-I'm sure that trout near him could, too. — Lefty Kreh

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club. — Lefty Gomez

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

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul." — Lefty Gomez

Whereas my grandfather was getting used to a much more terrifying reality. Holding my hand to keep his balance, as trees and bushes made strange, sliding movements in his peripheral vision, Lefty was confronting the possibility that consciousness was a biological accident. Though he'd never been religious, he realized now that he'd always believed in the soul, in a force of personality that survived death. But as his mind continued to waver, to short-circuit, he finally arrived at the cold-eyed conclusion, so at odds with his youthful cheerfulness, that the brain was just an organ like any other and that when it failed he would be no more. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed. — Jeffrey Eugenides

So, I'm a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about how I really fucking can't stand Democrats. So I was startled to be reminded of a fact that I'd almost entirely forgotten: I really fucking can't stand Republicans. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx. — Lefty Gomez

One of these was Harry Hay, a young actor and communist who had been performing in Clifford Odets' play on unionization, Waiting for Lefty, at the Hollywood Guild Theatre. Hay would later become father of the gay rights movement in America, but he was hired to play the organ for the OTO's Gnostic Mass, having been drawn to the temple through his friendship with Regina Kahl. — George Pendle

He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair. — Lefty Gomez

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave. — Lefty Gomez

Are you a lefty?" he asked with amiable interest.
"No. But if this hand gets bitten off, I'll still have my good one to write with. — Lisa Kleypas

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season. — Lefty Gomez

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf. — Arthur Baer

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives. — Jill Sobule

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty. — Jules Shear

Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built — Jeffrey Eugenides

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics. — Marc Maron

Have you gone crazy, Lefty?" "No. On the contrary, I have become educated." "Sometimes that's worse, these days. — Thomas Sowell

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

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

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

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

Only triple I ever got. — Lefty Gomez

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again. — Lefty Gomez

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

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

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

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage. — Jonah Goldberg

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. — Lefty Gomez

I'd rather not throw the ball at all. — Lefty Gomez

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

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out. — Lefty Gomez

I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist. — Jill Sobule

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