American - Athlete | August 24, 1960 -
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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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.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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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?'
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