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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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.
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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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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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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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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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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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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.
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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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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.
