Cal Ripken, Jr. Quotes
Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
If this be treason, make the most of it!
-
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
-
In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
-
With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
-
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
-
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
-
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
-
You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
-
I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
-
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
-
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
-
I never really did any disco dancing.
-
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
-
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
-
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
-
I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.
-
My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
-
O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
-
When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.
-
Right now we're in a precarious situation, ... One thumb, and now we've got two, so that's not going to work out.
-
Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
