Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
Athlete
Baseball Player
Havre de Grace
Maryland
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
Iron Man
Rip
Thinking
Able
Baseball
Like
Many
Career
Feel
Careers
Feels
Game
Long
Almost
Good
Happened
Compete
Things
Games
Allow
Think
Chance
Blessed
More quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
The reality is that players can't play forever.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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.
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.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'
Cal Ripken, Jr.
If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
