The Pride of the Yankees

"All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire."

"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."

"[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."

"Lou Gehrig, I could learn to like you."

"It's the Great American Story!"

"The Crowd Worshipped Him... One Woman Understood Him!"

"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!"

"Gary Cooper - Lou Gehrig"

"Teresa Wright - Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig"

"Babe Ruth - himself"

"Walter Brennan - Sam Blake"

"Dan Duryea - Hank Hanneman"

"Elsa Janssen - Mom Gehrig"

"Ludwig Stössel - Pop Gehrig"

"Virginia Gilmore - Myra"

"Bill Dickey - himself"

"Ernie Adams - Miller Huggins"

"Pierre Watkin - Mr. Twitchell"

"Harry Harvey - Joe McCarthy"

"Robert W. Meusel - himself"

"Mark Koenig - himself"

"Bill Stern - himself"

"Addison Richards - Coach"

"Hardie Albright - Van Tuyl"

"Edward Fielding - Clinic doctor"

"George Lessey - Mayor of New Rochelle"

"Edgar Barrier - Hospital doctor"

"Douglas Croft - Lou Gehrig as a boy"