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.

Get in the game.  Do the best you can.  Try to make a contribution.  Learn from today.  Apply it to tomorrow.

Cal Ripken, Jr. (born 1960) is a former Major League Baseball player.  Nicknamed the “Iron Man,” because of his playing in 2,632 consecutive games, he is a Hall-of-Fame honoree.  His entire career of 21 seasons was spent with the Baltimore Orioles.