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Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.
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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Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
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There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.
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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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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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Each and every day had its challenges.
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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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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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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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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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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There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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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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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.
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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There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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