The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Gary Cooper: Lou Gehrig
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Lou Gehrig : [his farewell speech]
Lou Gehrig : Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth... play ball!
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Lou Gehrig : Is it three strikes, Doc?
Clinic doctor : You want it straight?
Lou Gehrig : Sure, straight.
Clinic doctor : It's three strikes.
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Lou Gehrig : All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire.
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Lou Gehrig : People have to live their own lives. Nobody can live it for you. Nobody could have made a baseball player out of Uncle Otto, and nobody can make anything but a baseball player out of me.
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Pop Gehrig : But Louie, suppose she finds out? What about me?
Lou Gehrig : Protect yourself in the clinches, Pop!
Pop Gehrig : What about mail? Suppose Mama writes you?
Lou Gehrig : She'll write the letters, but you mail them.
Pop Gehrig : What about the money you will be sending me? How will I explain that?
Lou Gehrig : Tell her you've got a job.
Pop Gehrig : Job! Who... me?
Lou Gehrig : You!
Pop Gehrig : Louie, wait! What kind of a job?
Lou Gehrig : That's up to you.
Pop Gehrig : [Thinks for a moment and comes up with the perfect job] Politics!