I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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,… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
