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

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That’s a lucky job… The passion for baseball is always going to be there. — Cal Ripken

That’s the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it’s rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that. — Cal Ripken

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow. — Cal Ripken

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand. — Cal Ripken

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing. — Cal Ripken

I don’t love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in–game responsibility. — Cal Ripken

I kept thinking, ‘this must be the coolest job–I’d like to be a professional baseball player.’ They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was. — Cal Ripken

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues. — Cal Ripken

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All–Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture. — Cal Ripken

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it. — Cal Ripken

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities. — Cal Ripken

I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life. — Cal Ripken

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention. — Cal Ripken

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. You knew you had cheated. — Cal Ripken

It was an amazing experience, It was a big celebration but when i went to shake hands wIth the fans, It became very intimate, personal, one–on–one. i remember recognizing faces, people, and sometimes names. — Cal Ripken

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work. — Cal Ripken

What keeps me going? I guess it’s just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life. — Cal Ripken

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

We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth. — Cal Ripken

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

I told hIm there’s no way In the world I’m goIng to do that. — Cal Ripken

As long as I can compete, I won’t quit. Reaching three–thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute. — Cal Ripken

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? — Cal Ripken

People clearly relate the record with the importance of showing up. — Cal Ripken

I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that. — Cal Ripken

The streak has become my identity; it’s who I’ve become. — Cal Ripken

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make. — Cal Ripken

Disadvantaged kids many times don’t have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don’t have that support network. — Cal Ripken

I have two very strong memorIes of that nIght, one was lookIng up at my dad( former baltImore orIoles manager cal rIpken sr.), catchIng hIs eye In the skybox. — Cal Ripken

Each and every day had its challenges. — Cal Ripken

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. — Cal Ripken