Explore Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

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

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?

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.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

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 say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

I didn’t just show up_x000D_for work, as has sometimes been said. I also_x000D_ showed up to work.

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long.

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.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.