Baseball Quote by Lefty Gomez

“I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.”

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

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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…

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It's better to be lucky than good.

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

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.

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Only triple I ever got.

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I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.

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