Cal Ripken, Jr. Kids Quotations

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

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 satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.

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