Quotes from Lou Gehrig

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.

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.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

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.

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.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

I might have had a tough break; but I have an awful lot to live for.

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.

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.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter. That's something.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

For the past two weeks, you've been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.