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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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Baseball Player
Havre de Grace
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Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.
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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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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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I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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Each and every day had its challenges.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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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 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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The reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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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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I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
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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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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.
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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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