“I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get m...” — Cal Ripken Quote

“I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.”

“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.”

“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”

“In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.”

“Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.”

“Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.”