Top 43 Lefty Gomez Quotes
#2. 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
#3. My steps feel lighter now and I realize it's because I'm running toward something, and not away from it.
Clare Mackintosh
#4. 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
#5. If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.
Lefty Gomez
#6. I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
Lefty Gomez
#7. I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."
Lefty Gomez
#8. You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.
Rick Yancey
#9. Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.
Lefty Gomez
#10. Sometimes you giving a lot attention for someone but then she didn't give you attention as big as you gave ... you only have to wait because someday she will realize that attention from yours is priceless.
Ikhsan Baskara
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. On Friday night, it was fun [to know] that if you bombed, or whatever was going on, that you'd be on TV at 11. It was a cool feeling, and you'd get a couple hundred dollars.
John Mulaney
#15. 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
#16. Most of time we cant fulfill our dreams ...
Its not mean, we cant fulfill it..
To fulfill it, we just need to find what we missed & where we missed..
Arafath Shanas
#17. I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
Zach Johnson
#18. 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
#20. We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
Lefty Gomez
#21. 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
#22. Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.
Jill Paton Walsh
#23. Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.
Lefty Gomez
#24. He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.
Lefty Gomez
#25. I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
Lefty Gomez
#26. I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez
#27. If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
Jonathan Haidt
#28. He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.
Lefty Gomez
#29. I don't know. I've never been on second before.
Lefty Gomez
#30. 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
#31. He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.
Lefty Gomez
#32. I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.
Lefty Gomez
#33. I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.
Lefty Gomez
#34. The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.
Billy Graham
#35. It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.
Alex Steffen
#36. My people are crumbling and dying and starving, and you're blessing blessed people and serving the saved.
Jen Hatmaker
#37. I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.
Lefty Gomez
#38. That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.
Veronica Roth
#39. 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
#41. If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power of the storm, you sink!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. 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
#43. The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
Lefty Gomez
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