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Lou Gehrig Quotes

1903–1941 United States

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19 1903 – June 2 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. He set several Major League and American League records and was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association.

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Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.

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 bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lou Gehrig (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.