After Quote by Cal Ripken, Jr

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

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

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

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

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

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

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

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

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

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

The reality is that players can't play forever.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

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