QUOTES
Quotes about Lou Gehrig
"I would not have traded two minutes of the joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another."
-- Lou Gehrig's wife, Eleanor
"Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer."
-- baseball player Gil Hodges
"He was a symbol of indestructibility - a Gibraltar in cleats."
-- columnist Jim Murray
"I did not go there to look at Gehrig. I did not even know what position he played. But he played in the outfield against Rutgers and socked a couple of balls a mile. I sat up and took notice. I saw a tremendous youth, with powerful arms and terrific legs. I said, . Here is a kid who can't miss."
-- New York Yankees scout Paul Krichell
"There was absolutely no reason to dislike him, and nobody did."
-- sportswriter Fred Lieb
"Lou, it took 'em 15 years to get you out of there. They get me out in 15 minutes!"
-- baseball player Lefty Gomez, addressing Lou Gehrig at the end of Gehrig's 2,130 consecutive games streak
"I had him for over eight years and he never gave me a moment's trouble. I guess you might say he was kind of my favorite."
-- New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy
"Gifted with no flair whatever for the spectacular, except as it might be produced by the solid crash of bat against ball at some tense moment, lost in the honey days of a ballplayer's career in the white glare of the great spotlight that followed Babe Ruth, he nevertheless more than packed his share of the load."
-- sportswriter Bill Corum
"I slipped and the ball got away from me with nothing on it. Maybe it's lucky it hit Lou, instead of going over the plate."
-- baseball player Carl Hubbell, commenting on an incident with Lou Gehrig in the World Series
"Louie was always a good boy."
-- Lou Gehrig's mother, Christina
"He doesn't need tribute from anyone. His life and the way he lived were tribute enough. He just went out and did his job every day."
-- New York Yankees teammate Bill Dickey
"Gehrig never learned that a ballplayer couldn't be good every day."
-- baseball player Hank Gowdy
"Whatever Lou does in the future doesn't count. He has had 14 great seasons, and I mean great. If I could have only 10 of them, I'd be satisfied. Here's a fellow who has lasted 'til he's 36, and only this morning I was wondering, and me 24, how long I'll last. Say, if I could go 10 more years, 'til I'm 34, I'd be glad to call it a career."
-- New York Yankees teammate Joe DiMaggio
"Lou Gehrig was a guy who could really hit the ball, was dependable and seemed so durable that many of us thought he could have played forever."
-- New York Yankees teammate George Selkirk
"Lou was the kind of boy that if you had a son, he's the kind of person you'd like your son to be."
-- New York Yankees teammate Sam Jones
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