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Lou Gehrig Speech
"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. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received
anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand
men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just
to associate with them for even one day? Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't
have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder
of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrows? To have spent six years with
that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next
nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology,
the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky. When
the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and
vice versa, sends you a gift, that's something. When everybody down to
the groundskeeper and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies,
that's something. When you have a father and mother work all their lives
so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing.
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 consider myself
the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. And I might have been given
a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."
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