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So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.
Lou Gehrig
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig
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
I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.
Lou Gehrig
Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Lou Gehrig
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
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
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
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
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
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. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?
Lou Gehrig