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There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.
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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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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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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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 reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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