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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Lou Gehrig : ‘Farewell Speech’
Lou Gehrig : ‘Farewell Speech’
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Lou Gehrig Farewell speech
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fans, for the past two weeks you've been reading about a bad break I got.
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Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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I've been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
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Look at these grand men.
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Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?
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Sure, I'm lucky.
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Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert, also the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow?
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To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins.
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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.
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Sure, I'm lucky.
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When the New York Giants A-Team, you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, send you a gift.
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That's something.
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When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that's something.
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When you have a wonderful motherinlaw who takes sides with you and squabbles against her own daughter, that's something.
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When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing.
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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.
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So I close in saying that I might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.