90 Left Field Quotes

Following is our list of left field quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about center field.

Famous Left Field Quotes

Back, back, back, back. Gone. — Chris Berman

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

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. — Duke Snider

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

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head. — Bobby Bonilla

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. — Bill Veeck

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. — Yogi Berra

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. — Barry Switzer

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose

See the ball; hit the ball. — Pete Rose

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy. — Nolan Ryan

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. — Robin Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. — Ted Williams

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. — Hank Aaron

Short Left Field Quotes

• Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. — Babe Ruth
• Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson
• I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. — Bryce Harper
• Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. — Wayne Gretzky
• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held
• A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. — Warren Spahn
• Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. — Frank Robinson
• A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen. — Alvin Dark
• Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you. — Sophia Bush

Left Field Image Quotes

What's Left Quotes

I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. — Meek Mill

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying. — Sarah Dessen

Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God. — Mary Slessor

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left- — Magnus

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left. — Danny Kaye

Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy. — Leo Babauta

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? — Jim Carrey

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave. — Jurgen Klopp

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country. — Joseph Estrada

Center Field Quotes

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

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat. — Bryce Harper

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor. — Mickey Rivers

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort. — Carl Rogers

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field. — Stan Musial

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade. — Ryan Sypek

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling. — Heinrich Hertz

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play! — Tom Hanks

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes. — Terry Tempest Williams

All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee. — Henry Van Dyke

People Writing About Left Field

Name	Quotes	Likes
Babe Ruth quotes on baseball, striking out	75	1709
Pete Rose quotes on hustle, baseball	81	750
Harry Caray quotes on life, love and letterman	25	2003
Duke Snider quotes on life, baseball and leadership	15	210
Arthur Baer quotes on education, leadership and world	21	212
Bobby Bonilla quotes on baseball, life and mlb	14	145

More Left Field Quotes

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

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

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind. — Peyton Manning

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

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision. — Anna Wintour

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen. — Paul Cezanne

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. — Willa Cather

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have. — Wayne Dyer

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

I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever. — Mickey Rivers

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham) — C. S. Lewis

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

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. — Anton Chekhov

Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early. — Yogi Berra

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

On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance. — Albert Einstein

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

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field. — Alex Rodriguez

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps. — Bill Moyers

No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record. — Siri Hustvedt

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch. — Steve Carlton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. — Maya Lin

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

That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche. — Dennis Miller

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

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. — James Nachtwey

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama. — Rod Carew

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field. — Kevin McKidd

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour. — Stephen Spender

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher. — Charles Kettering

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

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

There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested on the high fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out against the sun, was exactly contained within the circle of the disk; the handles, the tongue, the share—black against the molten red. There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun. — Willa Cather

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