Cal Ripken, Jr.
Related All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken. STEVE CLEVENGER Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bri... HUGO WEAVING I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. SHEENA EASTON I'd definitely found my equal, the woman who made my life a living hell and lived to antagonize me. ... CHRISTINA LAUREN BRANCH RICKEY MICKEY MANTLE I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over ... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels a... MICHAEL PENA When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. TAKERU KOBAYASHI DEREK JETER I wanted to do something for the community I lived in all my life, BILL STEWART My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd ... F. GARY GRAY When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I... MARY MACLANE I can understand why Cal Ripken wanted to keep playing, ... It's a rarity. I think it defined my car... JERRY GREEN This past year I had an opportunity to sit on the sideline and reflect on where I was in my life and... GERRY HUNSICKER We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years ... BOBBY DOERR BARRY BONDS There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only proble... AL GALLAGHER My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ... LAUREN GIBSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it ... GUY LAFLEUR I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. ... ALAN RITCHSON My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth... WALLACE SHAWN I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-gi... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING NOAH BAUMBACH SISSY SPACEK KIRSTEN DUNST DIANE ACKERMAN DIANE ACKERMAN DIANE ACKERMAN DIANE ACKERMAN When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to ch... CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. DAMIEN CHAZELLE Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. f... DAVID HARSANYI I was an active little kid and I always listened to exciting music. My dad was into Hendrix. I was i... JOSH MORGAN My whole motivation to get to this point was because I didn't want my little brothers to live the li... ROBIN HORTON DIANE ACKERMAN ROBERT FROST QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very h... SHANE FILAN I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of t... ANTHONY EDWARDS JEN LANCASTER CATHERINE BELL I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for ... KURT BROWNING ANNETTE BENING I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare... PATRICIA POLACCO When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated... DAVID ALAN GRIER DIANE ACKERMAN DEYTH BANGER DREW BARRYMORE As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove a... LEAH REMINI I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict. ORI GERSHT Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more... MO YAN I murdered my dad with an aluminum baseball bat and I set the house on fire from my dad's bedroom, DEREK KING JASON KIDD CAL RIPKEN, JR. GAIL DEVERS I wanted to play baseball. That was probably my best sport, but I wasn't allowed to play Little Leag... OLIVER PURNELL I want to be part of a baseball team, and the sport will always be part of my life. It has been a pa... CORY GALLAGHER I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in lif... ALAN RITCHSON I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid. JACKSON RATHBONE I did grow up with Kurt Russell as a Dad, who was a professional baseball player, with all boys. All... KATE HUDSON PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS
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CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. CAL RIPKEN, JR. 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  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 â€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... 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It was all I lived for, to play baseball. 
It was all I lived for, to play baseball. 
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo... 
I want to be able to play with my kids, man. There's a lot more to life than baseball. 
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re... 
Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing ... 
My mom lived a much different airline experience, ... She was working Lufthansa in first class. So i... 
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find i have just lived the length of it, i want to hav... 
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to h... 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha... 
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 
I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out ... 
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball an... 
My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I ... 
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... 
I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm l... 
It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't kn... 
I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very s... 
I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball. 
I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very s...