Patrick Ferrera:
CLASS OF 1974
West Valley High SchoolClass of 1974
Spokane, WA
Patrick's Story
Patrick is from Spokane, Washington. Patrick's schools include West Valley High School. Patrick later attended Spokane Community College (Architectural Technology, Associates Degree) . Patrick works(ed) at Ls Engineering.
Patrick's interests include News, Sports. Music Patrick likes includes The Monkeys, Beattles, Buddy Holly. Books Patrick likes include Luckiest Man. Movies Patrick likes include Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek.
One of Patrick's favorite quotes is:""He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes" "COURAGE"
"What do you think of the nerve of that big monkey (Babe Ruth). Imagine the guy calling his shot and getting away with it." Lou Gehrig
I'm not helping this team any. I know I look terrible out there. This string of mine doesn't mean a thing to me. It isn't fair to the boys for me to stay in there. Joe, I want you to take me out of the lineup today." Lou Gehrig
"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrows? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? 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? Sure...Expand for more
, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, sends you a gift, that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeeper and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that's something. When you have a father and mother work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing. 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. I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. And I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for." - July 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day"
"I had him for over eight years and he never gave me a moment's trouble. I guess you might say he was kind of my favorite." - Hall of Fame manager Joe McCarthy"
"I never knew how someone dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand." - Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle farewell address (1969)"
"Lou (Gehrig) was the kind of boy that if you had a son, he's the kind of person you'd like your son to be." - Yankee Sam Jones"
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do." - (Cal) Ripken, Jr."
"I would not have traded two minutes of the joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another." - Eleanor Gehrig
What an inspiration for all of us.
(Lou Gehrig Died From ALS)".
More about Patrick:"Life is all so good. Can it not get any better?".
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