A Hero's Secret Love and Life
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Intimate and thrilling drama of a hero of the headlines... the girl who had his love and shared his life, but dared not question his one secret!
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Understanding Beyond Fame
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The Crowd Worshipped Him... One Woman Understood Him!
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The Essence of the American Dream
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It's the Great American Story!
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Facing the Reality of Three Strikes
Lou Gehrig: [about his failing health]
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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Misunderstanding in a Baseball Conversation
Hank Hanneman:
That Gehrig's the chump of all time. Falling for a gag like that.
Sam Blake:
Aw, he doesn't know about a gag.
Hank Hanneman:
Yeah? What does he know about, Mr. Bones?
Sam Blake:
Baseball.
Hank Hanneman:
He knows... I'll tell ya somethin'. A guy like that is a detriment to any sport. He's a boob with a batting eye. He wakes up, brushes his teeth, hikes out to the ballpark, hits the ball, hikes back to the hotel room, reads the funny papers, gargles and goes to bed. That's personality, hm?
Sam Blake:
The best.
Hank Hanneman:
A real hero.
Sam Blake:
Let me tell you about heroes, Hank. I've covered a lot of em, and I'm saying Gehrig is the best of em. No front-page scandals, no daffy excitements, no horn-piping in the spotlight...
Hank Hanneman:
No nothing.
Sam Blake:
...but a guy who does his job and nothing else. He lives for his job. He gets a lot of fun out of it. And fifty million other people get a lot of fun out of him, watching him do something better than anybody else ever did it before.
Hank Hanneman:
You'd be right, Sam, if all baseball fans were as big boobs as Gehrig.
Sam Blake: [beat]
They are. The same kinda boobs as Gehrig. Only without a batting eye. That's why I'm putting my money on Gehrig.
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Communication and Responsibility in Family Dynamics
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!
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Eleanor Gehrig's Growing Affection for Lou
Eleanor Gehrig:
Lou Gehrig, I could learn to like you.
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A Glimpse of Courage and Resilience
Lou Gehrig: [[w:AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes|American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations]
*Note: the bolded portion is ranked #38 in the ] in American cinema.
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Luck Amidst Adversity
Lou Gehrig: [in his farewell speech at Yankees Stadium]
People all say that I've had a bad break. But today ... Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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Embracing Individuality in Life Choices
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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Acceptance of Unchangeable Decisions
Lou Gehrig:
All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire.
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