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 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.

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.

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.

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.'

I've always been my own hitting coach.

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.