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Lou Gehrig
The Iron Horse of the Yankees, whose 2,130 consecutive games stood for durability itself — until the disease that now carries his name ended them. His farewell at Yankee Stadium remains sport's most quoted goodbye.
Independently indexed citations from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1905) and Wikiquote — cited and licensed, not part of the curated verbatim registry.
“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 17 years, and I…”
Speech made on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee at Yankee Stadium (July 4, 1939)reference only0.60
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“So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.”
Speech made on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee at Yankee Stadium (July 4, 1939)reference only0.60
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