{"id":56,"date":"2021-09-20T19:12:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.71.176.83\/lou-gehrig\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2021-09-24T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:24:21","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lougehrig.com\/index.php\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56\" class=\"elementor elementor-56\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2f2fff15 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"2f2fff15\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e07c106\" data-id=\"2e07c106\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16363757 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"16363757\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-30b604b8\" data-id=\"30b604b8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-190151b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"190151b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.7 - 03-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quotes<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a18719a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a18719a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.7 - 03-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h3>Quotes by Lou Gehrig<\/h3><p>\u201cWe were mighty short on infielders in those days.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cLets face it. I\u2019m not a headline guy. I always knew that as long as I was following Babe to the plate I could have gone up there and stood on my head. No one would have noticed the difference. When the Babe was through swinging, whether he hit one or fanned, nobody paid any attention to the next hitter. They all were talking about what the Babe had done.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI am a slave to baseball and only because I really love the game, hate to think of taking even one day away when we are playing.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIrrespective of any other players on our club, I am the man to whom the team looks as a pacesetter. Every year I am told I am the hitter who must lead the Yankees to the pennant. That suits me fine.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41cbcd1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41cbcd1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Quotes about Lou Gehrig<\/h3><p>\u201cI would not have traded two minutes of the joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 Lou Gehrig\u2019s wife, Eleanor<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cGehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 Baseball Player, Gil Hodges<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cHe was a symbol of indestructibility \u2013 a Gibraltar in cleats.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 Columnist, Jim Murray<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cTo my mind, Gehrig is the greatest first baseman ever, and I take my hat off to him for that.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 A Fan<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cLou is the perennial youth of the game.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 The Sporting News (1937)<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cIf all ballplayers were like Gehrig there wouldn\u2019t be any job for trainers like me on ball clubs.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 Yankee Team Trainer, Doc Painter<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cHe\u2019s got the old-time playing spirit\u2026 He works hard all the time\u2026 You can see it in every move he makes. He\u2019s all baseball.\u201d<br \/><em>\u2013 Columbia Alumnus\/ Future Hall of Famer, Eddie Collins<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cGehrig certainly is one of the Yanks\u2019 prize locomotives \u2013 a veritable Iron Horse to pull the team along over the grades.\u201d<br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: var( --e-global-color-text );\">\u2013 Will Wedge of The Sun (1931)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes Quotes by Lou Gehrig \u201cWe were mighty short on infielders in those days.\u201d \u201cLets face it. I\u2019m not a headline guy. I always knew that as long as I was following Babe to the plate I could have gone up there and stood on my head. No one would have noticed the difference. 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