Cal Ripken
Cal Ripken
Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken Jr., nicknamed "The Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Baltimore Orioles. One of his position's most offensively productive players, Ripken compiled 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, and 1,695 runs batted in during his career, and he won two Gold Glove Awards for his defense. He was a 19-time All-Star and was twice named American LeagueMost Valuable Player. Ripken is best known for...
thinking done way
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?
team guy style
Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
baseball blessed thinking
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.
sports pride
I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.
thinking talking two
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.'
thinking sportsmanship attention
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
baseball love-you games
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.
thinking forever
If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.
effort trying wells
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.
adversity past thinking
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.
leadership jobs ifs
If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
player feelings walking
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.
long quitting i-can
As long as I can compete, I won't quit.
sometimes said shows
I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.