Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Lou Gehrig

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Lou Gehrig.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "the Iron Horse". He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). He still has the highest ratio of runs scored plus runs batted in per 100 plate appearances (35.08) and per 100 games (156.7) among Hall of Fame players. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team.

American - Athlete | June 19, 1903 - June 2, 1941

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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

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

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

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.

Lou Gehrig

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

Lou Gehrig

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

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

Lou Gehrig

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

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

Lou Gehrig

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

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.

Lou Gehrig

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

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Lou Gehrig

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Lou Gehrig

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

It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

Lou Gehrig

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

Lou Gehrig

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig

I worked real hard to learn to play first. 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.

Lou Gehrig

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

Lou Gehrig