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The reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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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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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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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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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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.'
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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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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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 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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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Each and every day had its challenges.
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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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