Team Cal Quotes

#1. I left out the part about Cal I being betrothed. Jenna was already practically wearing a Team Cal T-shirt. I didn't want to give her any more ammunition.

Rachel Hawkins

#2. The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#3. We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Andrew M. Greeley

#4. It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

Cal Hubbard

#5. One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#6. What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

Steve Maraboli

#7. Make your own sacred choices

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#9. CHAPTER L THE PURSUIT AND ESCAPE

Charles Dickens

#10. When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#11. Of course I think a 10-year investment would be in a team's best interest. Look at Cal Ripken Jr., that guy was around until he was like 40 ... Not that I'm going to be in my 40s at the end of the 10-year deal or anything.

Miguel Tejada

#12. Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.

Erin McCarthy

#13. I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

Anton Chekhov

#14. Beloved,if you refuse to go within...you will, sadly, go without.

Jason Versey

#15. I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#16. The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

Cal Thomas

#17. I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

Susan B. Anthony

#18. Alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.

Robert K. Massie

#19. When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.

Michael Beckwith

#20. Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Mira Sorvino