David Ortiz Quotes

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

You can never fall in love with a team.

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

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

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

I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

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.

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

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

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

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.

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

What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.

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

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

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

I just want to play baseball.

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

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

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

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

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

This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.

David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, April 21, 2013

Nobody's going to dictate our freedom

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.

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.