David Ortiz Quotes

You can never fall in love with a team.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

I come to play everyday.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.

This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

Some people think I'm mean, until they get to know me.

I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

My teammates are the best.

I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

Negativity doesn't help me.

I try to do things the right way.

My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was fine because they taught me how to do everything right.

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.