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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.
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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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 don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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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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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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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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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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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'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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We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
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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 reality is that players can't play forever.
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Each and every day had its challenges.
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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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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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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 do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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