Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
More Quotes by Cal Ripken, Jr.
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
I see myself as extremely lucky.
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?'
When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.