Quotes By David Ortiz

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

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

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.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

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

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.