Cal Ripken quotes

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball. (Cal Ripken)
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't know how everyone else feels, but I'm exhausted. View quote
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All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Cal Ripken)
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time. View quote
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Cal Ripken

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Photo: Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Athlete
Born: August 24, 1960
Quotes count: 15
Wikipedia: Cal Ripken

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