Top 39 Gehrig Quotes

#1. When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

Mickey Mantle

Gehrig Quotes #83400
#2. 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

Gehrig Quotes #105431
#3. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #107452
#4. In 1938 ... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

Laura Hillenbrand

Gehrig Quotes #263796
#5. We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #284182
#6. They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Tony Lazzeri

Gehrig Quotes #327306
#7. The Gotham boys have a first baseman, Louis Gehrig, who is called the 'Babe Ruth' of the high schools," wrote the Chicago Tribune.

Jonathan Eig

Gehrig Quotes #404801
#8. There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #428190
#9. In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

Katharine Graham

Gehrig Quotes #506273
#10. The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #524492
#11. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #553348
#12. Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

Gil Hodges

Gehrig Quotes #601491
#13. The enjoyment of a cigar after a hard week gives me a feeling of well-being and relaxation that a Valium could not match. While there may be a more ideal form of stress reduction, I haven't yet discovered anything else as effective and easy.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #602316
#14. It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #643192
#15. I've considered lobbying the medical field to rename rheumatoid arthritis something sexier, younger, and more exotic. Something like "The Midnight Death," or "Impending Vampirism." Or perhaps to name it after someone famous. Like "Lou Gehrig's disease, part two: THE RECKONING.

Jenny Lawson

Gehrig Quotes #647861
#16. 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

Gehrig Quotes #648307
#17. It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

Joe Dugan

Gehrig Quotes #667897
#18. If you're going to die at age thirty-five, professional sports is the best life ever. If you're going to die at eighty-five, it's the worst. The best life ever lived by anyone in any walk of life was Lou Gehrig.

Douglas Brunt

Gehrig Quotes #814316
#19. You remember what happened when Eddie Pipp got hurt? A guy named Lou Gehrig took over.

Mike Ditka

Gehrig Quotes #840735
#20. 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

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#21. Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Bert Campaneris

Gehrig Quotes #883302
#22. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Ernie Harwell

Gehrig Quotes #891780
#23. The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

Pete Rose

Gehrig Quotes #901926
#24. Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Carl Hubbell

Gehrig Quotes #921914
#25. 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

Gehrig Quotes #936115
#26. Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak;

Willard Mullin

Gehrig Quotes #1142243
#27. I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

Lou Gehrig

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#28. I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.

Carl Yastrzemski

Gehrig Quotes #1171711
#29. It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

Carl Hubbell

Gehrig Quotes #1172254
#30. 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

Gehrig Quotes #1230857
#31. 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.

Lou Gehrig

Gehrig Quotes #1249867
#32. James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

Khaled Hosseini

Gehrig Quotes #1269470
#33. Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

Lefty Gomez

Gehrig Quotes #1299909
#34. I thought of my new uncertainty: How long can I live with ALS?
I thought: "Don't search for answers. Live the question."
Enjoy life more because of the uncertainty, not less.

Susan Spencer-Wendel

Gehrig Quotes #1352367
#35. He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.

Bill Dickey

Gehrig Quotes #1464843
#36. 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

Gehrig Quotes #1797565
#37. Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

Cal Ripken Jr.

Gehrig Quotes #1829083
#38. I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.

Eric Davis

Gehrig Quotes #1868402
#39. In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Joe DiMaggio

Gehrig Quotes #1868726

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