Baseball Quotes by Lefty Gomez

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

— 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…

— Lefty Gomez

It's better to be lucky than good.

— Lefty Gomez

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

— 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…

— Lefty Gomez

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

— Lefty Gomez

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

— Lefty Gomez

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…

— Lefty Gomez

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

— Lefty Gomez

He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.

— Lefty Gomez

Only triple I ever got.

— 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

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew…

— Lefty Gomez

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

— Lefty Gomez

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…

— Lefty Gomez