49 Quotes by Lefty Gomez

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

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

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

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 spike myself?"

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

It's better to be lucky than good.

I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.

When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.

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 into one.