Lou Gehrig
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"Henry Louis" ""Lou"" or ""Buster"" "Gehrig" was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, a trait which earned him his nickname ""The Iron man (sports streak)/Iron Horse"". He finished with a career batting average of .340, an on-base percentage of .447, and a slugging average/slugging percentage of .632, and he tallied 493 home runs and 1,995 run batted in/runs batted in (RBIs). A seven-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star and six-time World Series champion, Gehrig won the Major League Baseball Triple Crown/Triple Crown in 1934 and was twice named the American League's (AL) Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award/Most Valuable Player. Gehrig was the first List of Major League Baseball retired numbers/MLB player to have his uniform number retired, and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

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

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.

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.

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.