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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.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
Athlete
Baseball Player
Havre de Grace
Maryland
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
Iron Man
Rip
Live
Wells
Well
Trying
Possibly
Every
Potential
Really
Bring
Good
Effort
Best

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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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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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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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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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Each and every day had its challenges.
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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
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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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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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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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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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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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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