Gary Cooper credited as playing...
Lou Gehrig
- [last lines]
- Lou Gehrig: [his farewell speech]
- Lou Gehrig: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth... play ball!
- Lou Gehrig: Is it three strikes, Doc?
- Clinic doctor: You want it straight?
- Lou Gehrig: Sure, straight.
- Clinic doctor: It's three strikes.
- 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.
- 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!