My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I… — 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
