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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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More quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.
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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If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.
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.'
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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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I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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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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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.
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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?
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.
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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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