Left 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

  Leadership, Baseball, Running

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

  Yogi Berra

  Weather, Fields, Sun

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• It's almost weirder sometimes when you don't have a full life experience with someone's ups and downs, knowing what they've been through. Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Knowing, Small Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Character, Thinking, People

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

  Kevin McKidd

  Fields, Excited, Curveballs

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• My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.

  Michael Cerveris

  Careers, Fields, Having Hope

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, People, Fields

  "Dr. Oz on Complementary Medicine: 'Challenge the Status Quo'" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. August 31, 2009.

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• You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

  Robert De Niro

  Character, Editing, Giving

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• wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

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• Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come completely out of left field. And still, of course, it is hard to say no to a writer who matters a lot to you and who you know matters to your readers.

  Lorin Stein

  Names, Who You Know, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

  Moby

  Successful, Long, Interesting

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• 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

  Running, Home, League

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• To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play.

  Albert Pujols

  Moving, Play, Matter

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• I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have already laid the groundwork. They're known around the world. People like that kind of surrealist, left-field humor, and that's what I do. And "Saturday Night Live," a lot of American humor. "The Simpsons," above all, the weird, left-field humor, which I love. And sardonic. So that's all I'm doing. I find that audience, and they're in every developed country around the world.

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, Night, Python

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• It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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

  Harry Caray

  Daughter, Baby, Congratulations

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• 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

  Baseball, Team, Would Be

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• 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

  Ambition, Boys, Thinking

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• 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

  Stars, Rocks, Choices

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• 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

  Running, Yankees, Swings

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• 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

  Kids, Talking, Fields

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• 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

  Baby, Wall, Monsters

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• 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

  Needs, Gears, Fields

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