Left Field Quotes

#1. I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Anthony Rizzo

#2. 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

#3. I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really cool characters that I personally love. Some will be obvious fits, but others will come out of left field - but that's what's fun about the Marvel U - the bench is deep.

Charles Soule

#4. Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers ... over the sign atop the bleachers ... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!

Mel Allen

#5. The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

Alfonso Soriano

#6. The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

Ty Cobb

#7. My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.

Michael Cerveris

#8. I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever.

Mickey Rivers

#9. The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

Jerry Coleman

#10. Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

Dom DeLuise

#11. That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field - The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed - it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game

Jayson Stark

#12. He likes control over everything, including me. Yet he's so unpredictably and disarmingly agreeable, too. He can be tender, good-humored, even sweet. And when he is, it's so left field and unexpected.

E.L. James

#13. I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

Kevin McKidd

#14. Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

Yogi Berra

#15. I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

Carl Yastrzemski

#16. I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

Pedro Martinez

#17. Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.

Annalee Newitz

#18. I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

Bryce Harper

#19. Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby.

Harry Caray

#20. In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

Ken Harrelson

#21. There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

Moby

#22. If somebody had told me that you have a choice of
being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers,
there would not have been a choice at all. I would
have said, 'Where's my locker?'

Alice Cooper

#23. To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play.

Albert Pujols

#24. Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Howie Mandel

#25. It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

Johnny Cash

#26. I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

Pete Postlethwaite

#27. To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool.

Corey Taylor

#28. I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.

Richie Allen

#29. It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

Jerry Coleman

#30. Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

Trevor Rabin

#31. The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.

Robin Williams

#32. I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

Mehmet Oz

#33. Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come completely out of left field. And still, of course, it is hard to say no to a writer who matters a lot to you and who you know matters to your readers.

Lorin Stein

#34. Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond.

Erin Morgenstern

#35. The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

Eckhart Tolle

#36. But tonight, after the carriages left, there would be Millie, her scent like a breeze from their lavender field at the height of summer, her skin as smooth as the finest velvet.
Their eyes met. She flushed. Desire tumbled through him.

Sherry Thomas

#37. That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

Dennis Miller

#38. Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his doctrine of the church left him with little sympathy for that attitude.

Iain H. Murray

#39. you feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest - burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.

Aliette De Bodard

#40. I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

Alex Rodriguez

#41. All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in stardust in the sky.

John Harricharan

#42. Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids to playing a game, which is the controller. You can't hand a basic video game controller to a child and expect them to understand what a left bumper is and to click in the right stick.

Tim Schafer

#43. In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

#44. The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

Jonathan Sacks

#45. Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#46. I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.

Peyton Manning

#47. Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

Henry Villard

#48. Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

Piet Mondrian

#49. There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

Rachel Field

#50. Papa is restless in the Field. He cannot find the rhythm. He doesn't know the step. His eye upon the horizon; his mind is in the world. His heart has left us already. His feet will follow.

Kristen Heitzmann

#51. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.

Sarah Addison Allen

#52. The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

J.G. Holland

#53. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.

A.A. Milne

#54. Feelings are just a fire in a field of stubble: it burns for a moment, and then all that's left is soot and ashes. Do you know what the main thing is - the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency.

Amos Oz

#55. I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Bob Lemon

#56. There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

Sri Aurobindo

#57. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

Eckhart Tolle

#58. In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

#59. I don't need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I'll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.

Louise Gluck

#60. I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

Terrell Owens

#61. Buttercup," I say. Thousands of people are dead, but he has survived and even looks well fed. On what? He can get in and out of the house through a window we always left ajar in the pantry. He must have been eating field mice. I refuse to consider the alternative. I

Suzanne Collins

#62. Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

John McGraw

#63. I was an open field, full and plentiful, needing tender love and care. My parents drove the plow over me, tearing up my soil. They left me broken. Thirsty for love. Hungry for affection.

Tiffany Aleman

#64. All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

William Stafford

#65. They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Philip Freneau

#66. The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#67. If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

Stanley Rous

#68. When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Richard Seymour

#69. A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.

Glen Cook

#70. Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

Barack Obama

#71. The threat of her relapsing had created a strong gravitational field around their little family and was part of the reason he had never left home. He

Reif Larsen

#72. The moon, serene and detached in a cloudless sky, did what she could, though so far off, to help them in their quest; till her hour came and she sank earthwards reluctantly, and left them, and mystery once more held field and river.

Kenneth Grahame

#73. I was left there alone - winner of the field. It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained.

Charlotte Bronte