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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
Havre de Grace
Maryland
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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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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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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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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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Each and every day had its challenges.
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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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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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Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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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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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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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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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 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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Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
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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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