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Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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

Ripken Quotes By David Garrison

Examining case studies from around the world, Nik learned that failing to disciple the women in a movement had dire consequences in times of persecution. Ahmed said, "We learned that when the persecution becomes severe, and the men are killed or put in prison, our wives would be given over to the mosque or to the tribal leaders. Our children would have no one to teach them the way of Jesus. Within a short time, our movement would cease to exist." Joe added, "Ripken taught us that women are the key to the movement's future. — David Garrison

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Bradley Whitford

Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy. — Bradley Whitford

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

[...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer. — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I didn't just show up
for work, as has sometimes been said. I also
showed up to work. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Don Yaeger

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over ... and over again. — Don Yaeger

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Ron White

Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment. — Ron White

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way to survive and often thrive. Scripture and holy song was its lifeblood. — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken, Sr.

The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about — Cal Ripken, Sr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

Then he raised his voice in a prophet-like challenge that I knew would live with me forever: "Don't ever give up in freedom what we would never give up in persecution! — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Miguel Tejada

Of course I think a 10-year investment would be in a team's best interest. Look at Cal Ripken Jr., that guy was around until he was like 40 ... Not that I'm going to be in my 40s at the end of the 10-year deal or anything. — Miguel Tejada

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

Even though He wants our help, values our help, and calls for our help in changing the world, our all-powerful God is not helpless - even without us. — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken, Sr.

The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game. — Cal Ripken, Sr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Earl Weaver

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable. — Earl Weaver

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

before we can grasp the full meaning of the Resurrection, we first have to witness or experience crucifixion. If we spend our lives so afraid of suffering, so averse to sacrifice, that we avoid even the risk of persecution or crucifixion, then we might never discover the true wonder, joy and power of a resurrection faith. Ironically, avoiding suffering could be the very thing that prevents us from partnering deeply with the Risen Jesus. — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Tucker Elliot

When I was a kid, my parents were very careful about who was "acceptable" as my heroes if you will, because they didn't want me being influenced by athletes who lacked morals. Cal Ripken and Dale Murphy were at the top of my mom's list of players she felt were good role models, so of course I was a diehard fan of both those guys. — Tucker Elliot

Ripken Quotes By Jose Canseco

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule. — Jose Canseco

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Tucker Elliot

It's one thing to win a game with a base hit, or to save a game by pitching a scoreless ninth ... it's something altogether different to save our National Pastime by day in and day out showing up with the joy and passion of a kid playing Little League and the determined attitude and work ethic of a consummate professional bent on doing one thing and one thing only: his job. — Tucker Elliot

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

Jesus commanded His followers to go into "all the world" - not only into all "the safe places in the world, — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Nik Ripken

When I share with churches today, I often suggest that people read Matthew 28. When I read that chapter, I notice that Jesus never says if or whether you go; He simply talks about where you go! God may have to give instructions about the location - the where. But there is nothing to negotiate about the command to go - God has already made our primary task perfectly clear. — Nik Ripken

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I see myself as extremely lucky. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Tucker Elliot

I'm glad there are organizations like Dale Murphy's I Won't Cheat Foundation. I'm glad there are athletes with standards and morals who kids can look up to and learn from. I'm glad that for every bad example my nephew sees today on ESPN that I can share with him stories about truly heroic ballplayers like Cal Ripken, Jr. or Dale Murphy or Kirby Puckett. — Tucker Elliot

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Eric Davis

I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis. — Eric Davis

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.

Ripken Quotes By Cal Ripken Jr.

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.