I'm not a headline guy. I k... by Lou Gehrig, an American Athlete

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“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.”

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Lou Gehrig

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Name: Lou Gehrig

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jun 19, 1903

Date of Death: Jun 2, 1941

Profession: Athlete

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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