Quotes By David Ortiz

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

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

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

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

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've always been my own hitting coach.

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.

You can never fall in love with a team.

I come to play everyday.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

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

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

I just want to play baseball.

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.

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

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.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

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

I stress a lot, sometimes.

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

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.