Left Handed Quotes - Page 2

• If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"

  Daniel Handler

  Voice, Optimism, Hopeful

  "The Miserable Mill". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat

  J. D. Salinger

  Brother, Pockets, Ink

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
  He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
  the ball. I just like watching him hit.

  Jorge Posada

  Real, Swings, Balance

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• All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.

  Casey Stengel

  Needs, Analysis, Balls

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• Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

  Mike Weir

  Writing, Tennis, Balls

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• We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

  Whitey Herzog

  Relief, Three, Needs

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• I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

  Brad Ausmus

  Long, Guy, Left

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• Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

  Terry Crews

  Football, Art, Skills

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Dream, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Strings

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• The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Practice

  Source: www.ritson-sole.com

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• I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Form, Vulgar

  Source: collider.com

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• When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

  'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 4

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• I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Thinking, League

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Order, People, Able

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .

  Max Robertson

  Boys, Tennis, Balls

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• The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

  Notah Begay III

  Philosophy, Golf, Want

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• 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

  Baseball, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's not.

  Alex Sanchez

  Hate, Love You, Mean

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• These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Lying, Blow

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

  Sara Gruen

  Fall, Writing, Light

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• I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

  Ben Okri

  Stress, Writing, Hands

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• My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, School, Isms

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• Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?

  Eric Stoltz

  Home, Talking, Trying

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