Lou Gehrig Quotes

I may have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.

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

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

The only real disability in life is a bad attitude.

Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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.

I’m not a fancy hitter.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to ‘im. I want to kill people. I want to take out their fathers and mothers and children.

I’ve learned that life is a game of inches and so is baseball. Because in either game, life or baseball, the margin for error is so small.

I’m not the hero type. I played baseball, but I am no hero.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

I would be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

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.

I want to thank all those who made this day necessary.

I treat each game as my last.

Don’t be too good, I’ll miss you.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

You got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how are you gonna make a dream come true?

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

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.

I’m not going to lie down and die just because I have this illness.

Sure I’d like to beat the Yankees, but not at the cost of my own players.

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

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.

The only real disability in life is a bad attitude.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

I would be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

I regard myself as one of the luckiest men on the face of the Earth.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I love to win. But more than anything, I love to play. It keeps you where you belong.

I think I must have been born with baseball in my blood.

You don’t have to be a ballplayer to be a hero.

I’m retiring because I want to retire, not because I can’t play anymore.

My retirement plan is to become a full-time baseball fan.

The only thing I fear is not having enough beers to keep all the people busy until 5 a.m.

You can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I am not a quitter. I will fight for my dreams until the end.

Greatness is not in where you stand, but in what direction you are moving.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Baseball is, was, and always will be to me the best game in the world.

It’s tough to be a guy with Lou Gehrig disease and be a name like that.