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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.
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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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'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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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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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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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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Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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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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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 reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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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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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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There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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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