Lou Gehrig Quotes


"There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all."
- Lou Gehrig
(Related: Baseball, Discrimination)

"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
(Related: Beginning, Now, Play, Trying)

"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
(Related: Difference)

"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
(Related: Surrender)