Top 65 Lefty Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty
Kerrelyn Sparks
#4. 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
#5. Have you gone crazy, Lefty?" "No. On the contrary, I have become educated." "Sometimes that's worse, these days.
Thomas Sowell
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!
Wes Anderson
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
Jules Shear
#14. Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
Arthur Baer
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.
Jill Sobule
#20. If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
Robert Breault
#21. Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.
Jonah Goldberg
#22. I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.
Jill Sobule
#23. And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
Mel Tillis
#24. 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
#25. My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing ...
Gudrun Ensslin
#30. Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built
Jeffrey Eugenides
#31. I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
Chris Hayes
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.
Lefty Gomez
#36. I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
Lefty Gomez
#37. I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."
Lefty Gomez
#38. 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
#39. You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.
Lefty Grove
#40. Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.
Lefty Gomez
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.
Lefty Gomez
#47. 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
#49. I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.
Lefty Gomez
#50. He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.
Lefty Gomez
#51. I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
Lefty Gomez
#52. I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez
#53. He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.
Lefty Gomez
#54. I don't know. I've never been on second before.
Lefty Gomez
#55. 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
#56. He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.
Lefty Gomez
#57. I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.
Lefty Gomez
#58. The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
Lefty Gomez
#59. Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.
Lefty Gomez
#60. There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.
Lefty Kreh
#61. I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.
Lefty Gomez
#62. 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
#63. Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.
Lefty Kreh
#65. 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
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