QUOTES
Quotes by Lou Gehrig
"We were mighty short on infielders in those days."
"I'm not the 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."
"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."
"Lets face it. I'm not a headline guy. I always knew that as long as I was following Babe to the plate I could have gone up there and stood on my head. No one would have noticed the difference. When the Babe was through swinging, whether he hit one or fanned, nobody paid any attention to the next hitter. They all were talking about what the Babe had done."
"I worked real hard to learn to play first base. 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."
"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."
"It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself."
-- on playing alongside the legendary Babe Ruth
"What do you think of the nerve of that big monkey. Imagine the guy calling his shot and getting away with it!"
-- on Babe Ruth
"There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all."
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all."
"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."
"I decided last Sunday on this move. I haven't been a bit of good to the team since the season started. It wouldn't be fair to the boys or Joe, or to the baseball public for me to try going on. In fact, it wouldn't be fair to myself, and I'm the last consideration."
...on leaving baseball and ending his consecutive games streak
"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."
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