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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.
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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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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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Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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