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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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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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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 don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
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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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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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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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