“I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.” LeftFieldsExcitedCurveballsLeft Field Author:Kevin McKidd
“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.” SometimesKidsLeftTalkingFieldsDistractedAutographsLeft Field Author:Pedro Martinez
“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.” PeopleThinkingEnoughCharacterLeftLinesFieldsComplexesUnexpectedIntriguingSitcomOne LineLeft Field Author:Pete Postlethwaite
“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.” LeftFansFieldsWallBabyGreenMonstersAngleMy BabyRoad TripNuttyLeft Field Author:Carl Yastrzemski
“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.” NeedsLeftSeeingMiddleFieldsApproachGearsFastballsLeft Field Author:Anthony Rizzo
“The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.” TryingI CanDifferentProblemLeftTeamFieldsComfortComfortableDo The BestTeammateLeft Field Author:Alfonso Soriano
“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.” WayWantYearsHas BeensSeemsMightThreeLeftPiecesFourFieldsTypeLoudSomething NewVocalTouringLeft Field Author:Dave Grohl
“One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.” MenWellsKindSaidHardKidsYoungGuyNextLeftLinesWatchesFiveMinutesFieldsOne DayWeaknessSittingBallsLeagueOld ManDishesHelplessFenceCurvesFive MinutesBack And ForthPitcherRobinsRibsBattingCatchersWagnerLeft Field Author:Burleigh Grimes
“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!” RunningHouseLeftStreetsFieldsSwingsYardsYankeesNew York YankeesLeft FieldBleachers Author:Mel Allen
“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.” PeopleWorldBelieveDifferentEndsRealitySeemsJobsBeliefLeftFieldsUltimateErrorsDeceivingConfusingMisleadLeft Field Author:Kathryn Schulz
“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?'” IfsHas BeensSaidChoicesLeftStarsRocksFieldsTigersRock StarLockersLeft Field Author:Alice Cooper
“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.” FirstsSaidHomeRunningLeftLinesFieldsMajorsLowsThirdsDamnLeagueBobAvenuesPirateStadiumsRippedHome RunDebutMajor LeaguePittsburghFastballsLeft Field Author:Steve Carlton
“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.” StillsMatterPlayMovingLeftFieldsThirdsBotherBatsLeft Field Author:Albert Pujols
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldKindCountryPlayNightLeftKnownAudienceFieldsDiscoveryAround The WorldProgressiveSaturdaySaturday NightSaturday Night LivePythonDeveloped CountryMontySurrealistGroundworkSardonicLeft Field Author:Eddie Izzard
“It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.” HumorFunnyLeftFieldsBaseballLegsLeft Field Author:Jerry Coleman
“The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.” FirstsHumorFunnyLeftWaitingMinutesFieldsLowsBaseballBallsGroundedLeft Field Author:Jerry Coleman
“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.” IfsWould BeLeftTeamFieldsSafeBaseballBaseball TeamLeft Field Author:Robin Williams
“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.” LongLeftInterestingSuccessfulMinutesFieldsFitTraditionLeft Field Author:Moby
“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.” KnowsWayStillsMatterHardCertainCoursesNamesLeftFieldsReaderIdealsPublicationWho You KnowLeft Field Author:Lorin Stein
“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.” WayPersonsSometimesMomentsLeftLossFieldsRingsDefinedSmall MomentsLeft Field Author:Ted Leo