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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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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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The reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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 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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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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I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
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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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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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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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Stubbornness usually is considered a negative but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
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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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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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