Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes

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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.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Games, Trying, Today

  Cal Ripken, Donald T. Phillips (2008). “Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference”, p.136, Penguin

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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.

  Order, People, Soldier

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• If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Leadership, Jobs, No Point

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• You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Kids, Play

  "Cal Ripken, Jr. Looks Back on Hall of Fame Career, Looks Forward with New Book, 'Hothead'". "On the Record" with Martha Maccallum, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I didn’t just show up
  for work, as has sometimes been said. I also
  showed up to work.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Sometimes, Said, Shows

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• As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Long, Quitting, I Can

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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, Kids, People

  FaceBook post by Cal Ripken Jr from Nov 14, 2012

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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.

  Effort, Trying, Wells

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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.

  Adversity, Past, Thinking

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• Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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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.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Hands, Games, Focus

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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, Love You, Games

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• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Thinking, Sportsmanship, Attention

  "Ripken Shares 'Eight Elements of Perseverance'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 14, 2008.

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• 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

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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?

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Thinking, Done, Way

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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.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Responsibility, Games, Teammate

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• What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Things In Life, Trying, Desire

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Each and every day had its challenges.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Challenges

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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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.

  Thinking, Talking, Two

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• 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

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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.

  Games, People, Bunnies

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Sports, Fans, Earth

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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, Blessed, Thinking

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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, Drama, Winning

  Interview with Peter Schmuck, www.baltimoresun.com. August 23, 2010.

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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.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Nice, Thinking, Careers

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