Cal Ripken, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Baseball #Kids #Play
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 #Kids #Giving
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 #Blessed #Thinking
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 #Love You #Games
I didnâ€™t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Sometimes #Said #Shows
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, Jr.

#Stars #Thinking #People
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Careers #League #World
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.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Responsibility #Games #Teammate
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.

#Effort #Trying #Ballparks
The reality is that players can't play forever.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Player #Reality #Play
The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Identity #Streaks
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.

#Thinking #Talking #Two
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.

#Adversity #Past #Thinking
As long as I can compete, I won't quit.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Long #Quitting
The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Baseball #Jobs #Passion
My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Hands #Games #Focus
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Thinking #Sportsmanship #Attention
If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Leadership #Jobs
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 #Drama #Winning
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Athlete #Thinking #Negative
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Baseball #Thinking #Clouds
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.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Secret #Insightful #The End Of The Day
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.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Baseball #Kids #Issues
As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Long #Three #Lines
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.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Baseball #Jobs #Player
Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Careers #Shapes #Wanted
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?
-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

#Thinking #Done #Way

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