Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.”

“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 make those decisions about who plays.”

“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 actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.”

“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”

“I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.”

“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?'”

“You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.”