Cal Ripken, Jr. quote: "A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard."

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I see myself as extremely lucky.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your bas...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very s...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it f...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the agin...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But th...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better a...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What e...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and grea...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the gam...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my t...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to pract...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learni...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball play...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring t...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because yo...
CAL RIPKEN JR

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.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revol...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was see Kirby smile or hear him laugh. And...
CAL RIPKEN JR

You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was hear Kirby laugh or see his smile and ...
CAL RIPKEN JR

Everywhere you go around the country, people relate to the consecutive games steak in one shape or f...
CAL RIPKEN JR

I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosop...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys tha...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, ...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're ch...
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, be...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never se...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.

This is a tremendous shock. Elrod has been such a big figure in Baltimore for so long. He was as muc...
CAL RIPKEN

Everywhere you go around the country, people relate to the consecutive games streak in one shape or ...
CAL RIPKEN

It was an emotional night, an extraordinary moment, ... I wish Dad was there to touch and feel the s...
CAL RIPKEN

Tonight, I stand here, overwhelmed, as my name is linked with the great and courageous Lou Gehrig, ....
CAL RIPKEN

Baseball's in my blood... I've found out the last couple of years I've got a big interest in teachin...
CAL RIPKEN

I don't want to think it's true. I'm in a state of denial,
CAL RIPKEN

I guarantee you you'll feel better.
CAL RIPKEN

To me, Kirby is at his best sitting at a card table playing cards, talking to him, stories being sha...
CAL RIPKEN

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, ... Until it's rid of steroids, people are natural...
CAL RIPKEN

This World Series isn't about crowning a champion. I think the kids will remember this as a life exp...
CAL RIPKEN

He's a real person. He was genuine. He was considerate. He was everything a friend should be.
CAL RIPKEN

We're not trying to measure our success against the Little League, ... but we have the only league t...
CAL RIPKEN

When you play for so long, you see it's going to come to an end and you wonder, Is your talent dimin...
CAL RIPKEN

This is our third year here, and we're building momentum each time, ... I think our World Series has...
CAL RIPKEN

shocked, surprised, just like everyone else. I hope there's a reason or an explanation.
CAL RIPKEN

Everywhere you go around the country, people relate to the consecutive games steak in one shape or f...
CAL JR

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because yo...
CAL JR

You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was see Kirby smile or hear him laugh. And...
CAL JR

You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was hear Kirby laugh or see his smile and ...
CAL JR

Less and grayer hair.
CAL RIPKIN JR.

Less and grayer hair.
CAL RIPKIN, JR.

[...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer.
NIK RIPKEN

But the deacon said that the Holy Spirit told him, 'You don't have to come back. You just have to go...
NIK RIPKEN

Your fear is the greatest tool you will ever give to Satan. Overcoming your fear is your greatest to...
NIK RIPKEN

Serving God is not a matter of location, but a matter of obedience.
NIK RIPKEN

I cannot forget the words of my friend, Stoyan..."I took great joy that I was suffering in my countr...
NIK RIPKEN

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government w...
CAL THOMAS

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't r...
CAL THOMAS

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to elimin...
CAL THOMAS

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In oth...
CAL THOMAS

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a f...
CAL THOMAS

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immoral...
CAL THOMAS

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the pe...
CAL THOMAS

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, bu...
CAL THOMAS

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, the...
CAL THOMAS

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it...
CAL THOMAS

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of ...
CAL HUBBARD

When it was time for a player to go, he went.
CAL HUBBARD

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it ...
CAL HUBBARD

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
CAL HUBBARD

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, y...
CAL HUBBARD

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Electi...
CAL THOMAS

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more co...
CAL THOMAS

We needed all those foul shots for sure. We obviously came up with some clutch foul shooting down th...
CAL SAUNDERS

Typically, we come out and play well early and that helps us establish our game. That wasn't the cas...
CAL SAUNDERS

I'm not so worried about our offense as I am our defense and rebounding. Today we played hard, gave ...
CAL SAUNDERS

This was just a super atmosphere for a basketball game. Bradley-Bourbonnais had a great crowd and th...
CAL SAUNDERS

There's normally twice as many fans ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everyone and their mommy is h...
CAL SAUNDERS

They had us on our heels and to come out of the first period with a 2-0 lead was phenomenal. We know...
CAL ROADHOUSE

The kids who are seniors have been here (to state) and lost too many times. They came to win this ye...
CAL ROADHOUSE

He doesn't get a lot of credit. In games where he has had a lot of shots he has played very, very we...
CAL ROADHOUSE

When the kids first walked into the locker room on the first day of practice, they said their goal w...
CAL ROADHOUSE

No. If there's profit, it'll go to reducing the debt. We're still carrying $30 million in debt.
CAL NICHOLS

If we hadn't made the playoffs, we'd have been $1 million to $1.5 million in the hole for this seaso...
CAL NICHOLS

Certainly that's our determination. Every market is different, every franchise has variations in ter...
CAL NICHOLS

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.
CAL NICHOLS

He's a hard-working guy with lots of integrity. I encouraged him. We need good people becoming invol...
CAL NICHOLS

We were more active on defense. They [defense] didn't play conservative. They attacked things.
CAL MCCOMBS

We've got a chance to play for a conference championship and a chance to play for a winning season.
CAL MCCOMBS

We were ahead by 15 at halftime and I wasn't sure if it was going to be enough with this bunch. But ...
CAL MCCOMBS

You're always concerned about what's going to happen to your football team after they lose a tough o...
CAL MCCOMBS

It's big. We just really needed a win.
CAL MCCOMBS

We've got to do something to take them out of their rhythm of running the football and make them thr...
CAL MCCOMBS

I think playing Duke helped us become a better football team, and that's what it's all about. This g...
CAL MCCOMBS

The rest of the (Big South) teams got to go out and beat a top 20 team. We need to do our share and ...
CAL MCCOMBS

Losing 40-14 to Duke [last week], that's a tough loss. When you lose 28-26, that's even tougher beca...
CAL MCCOMBS

He [Mason] got caught up in the excitement of having a chance to beat a No. 13 team, but the way col...
CAL MCCOMBS

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â...
CAL JILLSON

People know we're running huge deficits and they know the costs have just rocketed upward. Many Amer...
CAL JILLSON

That was an effective strategy to get through the primary. But in the general election, he'll have t...
CAL JILLSON

President Bush is trying to regain his footing and develop some policy momentum for his second term,...
CAL JILLSON

It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice. The fact that he wasn't able to build on that achiev...
CAL JILLSON

The Republican governor and the Republican majority in the Legislature are unable to close that out....
CAL JILLSON

If you're betting your own money, you bet on Perry (to win re-election). But he can be beaten becaus...
CAL JILLSON

Lots of businesses already have domestic-partner benefits and those are already resolved. What busin...
CAL JILLSON

He's going to be an influential insider in the U.S. House and will continue to be consulted. And rea...
CAL JILLSON

If DeLay were not indicted, he probably wouldn't even have a strong enough opponent where he would h...
CAL JILLSON

As it relates to me personally, I'm in favor of it. As it relates to making this a better sport, I'm...
CAL III

I am very pleased to have Gary Putnam join my organization. He will be an invaluable asset to me as ...
CAL III

If you had a totally clean canvas, 44 cars and 22 owners would be the best thing. But the horse is a...
CAL III

It's a fantasy right now.
CAL III

I want to thank Bobby for his efforts over the past year and a half. I wish Bobby nothing but the be...
CAL III

I think the depth of our team was a factor. We've got six kids that can count, at any time, and we h...
CAL HUBBARD

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it ...
CAL HUBBARD

As long as our kids can focus on playing their games and not worry about what everybody else is shoo...
CAL HUBBARD

I've got a really good group this year,
CAL HUBBARD

Our ball movement wasn't good, and that's a credit to Quincy Notre Dame. They did a nice job of deny...
CAL HUBBARD

The girls seem to have really turned it up a notch the last five years, ... I think we're getting ki...
CAL HUBBARD

Golf is really important at U High, and kids work on their games,
CAL HUBBARD

I went to PE classes and started getting kids out there, ... They'd say, 'I've never played golf bef...
CAL HUBBARD

I thought our kids played as hard as they could play. We had the game won several times; Eureka had ...
CAL HUBBARD

Christine is really striking the ball solidly. She's a hard-working girl, pounding balls and working...
CAL HUBBARD

It's our role now to factor in the social and political ramifications.
CAL DUBROCK

It's down. There's no doubt about it.
CAL DUBROCK

It's much more about communication and consent in urban and suburban areas than it is in other, more...
CAL DUBROCK

What happens when hunters are doing all they can and it's still not enough? Are there other tools we...
CAL DUBROCK

With so many important technology issues being debated at the state and federal level, there is a re...
CAL DOOLEY

instead he chose evasion.
CAL DOOLEY

There's a concern that there's a proliferation of different standards in more and more states, and t...
CAL DOOLEY

strongest challenge to the program crops to embrace reforms that would be consistent with the intern...
CAL DOOLEY

I'm hopeful that we will see a decision that is clear and decisive as this recount moves forward tha...
CAL DOOLEY

Association health plans offer small businesses with an affordable way to provide health insurance c...
CAL DOOLEY

I believe what members are looking for is momentum ... China needs to demonstrate in some areas they...
CAL COHEN

It's certainly a possibility ... It remains to be seen how much can be accomplished how quickly.
CAL COHEN

It's disappointing. It doesn't seem like significant progress has been made or is about to be made.
CAL COHEN

It is amazing that we are going to have one pill a day for the treatment of HIV when you consider th...
CAL COHEN

If you're serious about it, you have to put in your time. Do more than just show up for the all-star...
CAL COCHRAN

My goal is to see if I can make them better. Knowledge is power. What we have to offer is an opportu...
CAL COCHRAN

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.
CAL COCHRAN

They push each other. It's what you have to have in order to be a successful team.
CAL COCHRAN

These guys want more. They're not easily satisfied. What they want to try to accomplish is something...
CAL COCHRAN

It's fun to be around their infectious joy for the game and the unity they have for one another. The...
CAL COCHRAN

Without that regular competition in a week, it's hard to estimate what it's going to take for 32 min...
CAL COCHRAN

(Dominic) showed a lot of courage and leadership. He kept our energy level up all night.
CAL COCHRAN

We maintained our poise and continued to run through our offense. (Allen's) a really good player, an...
CAL COCHRAN

I'm so proud of these guys. Nobody ever figured us to get this far. It was a special year. These are...
CAL COCHRAN

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.
CAL BROWN

There's always hope, ... Do the best you can with what you've got even if that means working longer ...
CAL BROWN

It would provide tax deductible interest if she needed to make a withdrawal, it would force her to p...
CAL BROWN

You can only control for what you can control. And without a really good understanding of the risk a...
CAL BROWN

This creates a kind of snowball effect in that you keep increasing the amount that you pay on the de...
CAL BROWN

We're always looking for more workers.
CAL BENDER

Without Experience Works, many don't know where they would be, or what they would be doing.
CAL BENDER

We appreciate them taking our people and training them.
CAL BENDER

A lot of the people we have on staff are between 55 and 90.
CAL BENDER

There's a lot of mourning over the fact that it's gone.
CAL WETTSTEIN

We had forgotten that, as part of the Cat III approval, we had agreed that we wouldn't build any new...
CAL WETTSTEIN

It's always entertaining. Sometimes you know what you're going to hear and sometimes you're surprise...
CAL WETTSTEIN

It probably tightens up operations, but won't be noticeable to skiers.
CAL WETTSTEIN

It can vary from getting absolutely no comments to a huge number of negative ones.
CAL WETTSTEIN

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people...
CAL THOMAS

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to elimin...
CAL THOMAS

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failu...
CAL THOMAS

Once it is established that some lives are less valuable and less meaningful than other lives (as ha...
CAL THOMAS

I just figure it's a good way to work out in the morning, and you're not tired during school.
CAL THOMAS

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mo...
CAL THOMAS

The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is ...
CAL SLEMP

IBM believes that the environment has shifted. With increased security protection on most systems an...
CAL SLEMP

The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is ...
CAL SLEMP

While people often think of identity management in 'defensive' terms, one of the most important bene...
CAL SLEMP

There's normally twice as many fans everyone and their mommy is here. The intensity was not heighte...
CAL SAUNDERS

The last game we were supposed to send a message to Lockport and we didn't. They had a good game pla...
CAL SAUNDERS

I thought their kid should have gotten the T, or at least both of them should have gotten one. We (h...
CAL SAUNDERS

He's getting better. We're still not throwing him the ball much on offense, but he's getting some bo...
CAL SAUNDERS

All you can do is speculate right now.
CAL SAUNDERS

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on ...
CAL THOMAS

When these false prophets again appear, they can be reminded of the error of their previous ways and...
CAL THOMAS

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Repu...
CAL JILLSON

It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they ha...
CAL JILLSON

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better ...
CAL HUBBARD

We're always going to be committed to animal welfare on every level, strays, owner surrenders, etc.
CAL MORGAN

Many retailers require a significant amount of square footage, yet we have a fee that says you pay m...
CAL KENT

Lisa is coming around. She's played varsity for four years and never had to compete for a spot befor...
CAL HUBBARD

We make a foot bath so that if we happen to have anything on the soles of our shoes or so forth we s...
CAL SANDFORT

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

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Cal Ripken, Jr.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

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