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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.
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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.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.
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That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
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I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long.
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When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?
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Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
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If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.
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Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.
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The reality is that players can't play forever.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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