Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr. - Page 2

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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Kids
Parent
Support
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You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Accomplished
Criticism
Game People Who
Inside-Out
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I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Baseball
Games
Thinking
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I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Able
People
Thinking
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When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Journey
Day To Day
Grind
Process
Seems
Actual
Actual Process
Event
Step
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Effort
Trying
Wells
Ballpark
Best Good Effort
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I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Bunnies
Games
People
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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.'
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Talking
Thinking
Two
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My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Continuity
Stability
Leagues
Minor
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Diet
Routine
Strict
Best Work Always
Renewed
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Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Order
People
Soldier
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I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Kids
Baseball
People
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Baseball
Blessed
Thinking
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A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Nice
Real
Thinking
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Satisfied
Time Home Me
Attached
Minor
Minor League
Schedule
Stayed
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Opportunity
Baseball
Flexible
Little Bit
Retired
Adult
Life Dad Opportunity
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Player
Yankee Stadium
Yankees
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Activity
Baseball
Perspective
Traveled
Owner
Leagues
Manager
Minor
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One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
World Series
World Your Look
Cultural
Everybody Else
Losers
Utilize
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Ambition
Appeals
Baseball
Time Myself Me
Coach
Frame
Manager
Philosophies
Test
Time Frame
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Adversity
Past
Rosy
Thinking
Identify
Long Career
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Baseball
Games
Love You
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Different Ways
Considered
Normally
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I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Understood
Ninth
Inning
Missed
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Games
Yankee Stadium
Yankees
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Baseball
Drama
Winning
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
World Series
Anything Else
Event
Interactions
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Celebration
Conclusion
Okay
Realization
Tomorrow
Preparations
Sudden
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I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.
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Careers
Nice
Thinking
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Gray
Locker Room
Losing
Practice
Premature
Ran
Stadiums
Up And Down
Age Dad Always
Cover
Factor
Locker
Longer
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I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.
Cal Ripken, Jr. / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Integrity
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