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
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… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your… — 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… — 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… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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
Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share
Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret.… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share
Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share
