Cal Ripken
Cal Ripken
Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken Jr., nicknamed "The Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Baltimore Orioles. One of his position's most offensively productive players, Ripken compiled 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, and 1,695 runs batted in during his career, and he won two Gold Glove Awards for his defense. He was a 19-time All-Star and was twice named American LeagueMost Valuable Player. Ripken is best known for...
order people soldier
Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.
baseball kids giving
I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.
long quitting i-can
As long as I can compete, I won't quit.
sometimes said shows
I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
adversity past thinking
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.
effort trying wells
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.
thinking talking two
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.'
baseball blessed thinking
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.
thinking sportsmanship attention
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
team guy style
Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
baseball love-you games
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.
inspirational-sports athlete thinking
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
sports earth faces
We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.
baseball jobs passion
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.