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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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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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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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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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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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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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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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The reality is that players can't play forever.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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 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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