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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.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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Baseball Player
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Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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'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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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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There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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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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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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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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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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Each and every day had its challenges.
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