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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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Havre de Grace
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Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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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.
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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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.
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Each and every day had its challenges.
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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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There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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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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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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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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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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