Quotes By David Ortiz

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.

Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.

I try to do things the right way.

My teammates are the best.

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

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

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

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

Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

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.

Negativity doesn't help me.

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

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.