“My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in th...” — Cal Ripken Quote

“My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.”

“When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'”

“I see myself as extremely lucky.”

“Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn't a celebrity.”

“An angry father is most cruel towards himself.”

“My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!”