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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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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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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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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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Each and every day had its challenges.
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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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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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The streak has become my identity it's who I've become.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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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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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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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If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
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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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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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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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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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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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