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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.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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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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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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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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
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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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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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The reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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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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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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