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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.
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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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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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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