Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

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• When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

  

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• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  

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• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

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• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

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• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

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• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

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• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

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• And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

  

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• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

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• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

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• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

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• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

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• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

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• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

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• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

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• It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

  

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• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

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• I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

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• What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.

  

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• Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

  

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

  

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• Your 'conscious life' is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

  

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• You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
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  • Player