Lou Gehrig Quotes

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  I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

  Lou Gehrig

  Winning, Challenges, Victory

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• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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• I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

  Lou Gehrig

  Might, Awful, Tough

  "Lou Gehrig ‘luckiest man’ speech full text". www.washingtontimes.com. July 3, 2014.

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• You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.

  Lou Gehrig

  Fall, Eye, People

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

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• You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

  Lou Gehrig

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

  Lou Gehrig

  Differences, Long, Guy

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• The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Loses

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

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• There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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

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• Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Baseball, Reading, Past

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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  When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

  Lou Gehrig

  Motivational, Sports, Mother

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• I worked real hard to learn to play first. In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play a game. Then, I got so I'd make one a week, and finally, I'd pull a real bad one maybe once a month. At the end, I was trying to keep it down to one a season.

  Lou Gehrig

  Baseball, Real, Games

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  When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

  Lou Gehrig

  Wife, Towers, Finest

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

  Lou Gehrig

  Yankees, Trying, Goes On

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• It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

  Lou Gehrig

  Yankees, Giving, Shadow

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• When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

  Lou Gehrig

  Daughter, Mother, Law

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Thinking, Surrender

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• We were mighty short of infielders in those days

  Lou Gehrig

  Yankees, New York Yankees

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