David Ortiz Quotes

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. ~ David Ortiz

I guess the rules aren't for everyone. ~ David Ortiz

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

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

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

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

I just want to play baseball. ~ David Ortiz

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

You can never fall in love with a team. ~ David Ortiz

I come to play everyday. ~ David Ortiz

Big Papi placed among the top five in Most Valuable Player balloting during his first five seasons with the Red Sox. His best finish in that span was second place in 2005, just losing out to Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees. It was A-Rod, however, who suggested he'd gladly trade his hardware for the ring Ortiz won in 2004. A-Rod got the hardware for MVP again in 2007, but it was Ortiz who got another ring. ~ Tucker Elliot

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

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

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

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

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. ~ David Ortiz

Nobody's going to dictate our freedom ~ David Ortiz

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. ~ David Ortiz

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

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

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. ~ David Ortiz

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

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

David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, April 21, 2013 ~ David Ortiz

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

Seemingly every year at least one of the league's top sluggers can be found in Boston's lineup - and often times more than one. David Ortiz was second or third in slugging five consecutive seasons from 2003-07. Manny Ramirez was in the top five in slugging six consecutive seasons from 2001-06. Manny and Big Papi were one-two in slugging in 2004, and from 2003-06 Boston's big bats gave the club two of the league's top five sluggers - something no other team in the league could boast. ~ Tucker Elliot

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

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent. ~ Juliana Hatfield

Tweet from Julius Genachowski chairman of the FCC.

@FCC: David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today's Red Sox game. I stand with Big Papi and the people of Boston – Julius ~ Chairman Of The FCC

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. ~ David Ortiz

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

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

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

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. ~ David Ortiz

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty. ~ David Hume

That's the wrong fucking David Gilmour, Mate! ~ Sienna McQuillen

We must see ourselves as co-manifestors
partners in manifestation
all engaged in the primal act of unfoldment and emergence. Each act of manifestation may be directed toward a specific outcome, but it also contributes to the greater manifestation of the wholeness, love, compassion, and creativity of the primal source from which we all come. ~ David Spangler

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now. ~ David Cameron

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children
that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake. ~ David Lloyd George

I'm glad you're not mad at me," she says. "I just want everything to be okay."
I nod. If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. ~ David Levithan

Some people forget, he thought. A bad thing happens to them and their mind sweeps in and buries the bad thing deep, and all that's left is a stretch of white in their heads, like fresh snow. Looking at it - at them - you wouldn't even know anything was trapped beneath.
Some people forget, but David remembered everything. ~ Victoria Schwab

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly. ~ David Allen

I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing. ~ David Gregory

Quiet breathed like some darkening monster at the window of Theo's mind
He could not say "bad dog."
He could not say "good boy."
He could not say anything.
. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf. ~ David Wallace

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I didn't grow up as child actor. ~ David Boreanaz

Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap! ~ David Letterman

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things. ~ David Levithan

There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where you leave office in your 50s and you can live another 40 years, easily. That's a lot of time. ~ David Mandel

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ~ David Ben-Gurion

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor. ~ David Soul

My sister has appendages connected to her ankles. They feature toes and arches, but I cannot call them feet. In color they resemble the leathery paws of great apes, but in texture they are closer to hooves. In order to maintain her balance, she'll periodically clear the bottoms of debris - a bottle cap, bits of broken glass, a chicken bone - but within moments she'll have stepped on something else and begun the process all over again. It's what happens when you sell both your broom and your vacuum cleaner. ~ David Sedaris

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a Web site soon, where you'll type out everything in one huge paragraph. ~ David Wong

The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens. ~ David Giuntoli

You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!' ~ David Keirsey

The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping stones, and, in the event of failing inspiration, for falling into. Several of the trees appeared to have been specifically designed for climbing, and one huge, white old birch overhanging the stream promised the exhilarating combination of climbing a tree and falling into the water, all at one time. ~ David Eddings

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes. ~ David Sheff

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_ ~ David Leavitt

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. ~ Henry David Thoreau

This heated (environmental) debate is fundamentally about numbers. How much energy could each source deliver, at what economic and social cost, and with what risks? But actual numbers are rarely mentioned. In public debates, people just say "Nuclear is a money pit" or "We have a huge amount of wave and wind." The trouble with this sort of language is that it's not sufficient to know that something is huge: we need to know how the one "huge" compares with another "huge," namely our huge energy consumption. To make this comparison, we need numbers, not adjectives. ~ David Mackay

David put his pint glass down like it was poison. The clear amber beauty stared back at him with Again on its mind. She was already in his blood, swimming in his veins. ~ Suzanne Stroh

My life before the flood was manageable; during the flood it was chaos. The National Weather Service only reported river levels, and at times, crest predictions. It didn't report or predict everything else that could go wrong. ~ David J. Kirk

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community. ~ David Blunkett

Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do. ~ Larry David

When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending. I feel the warmth and texture and simultaneously I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear. I see the fat disappear from the muscle. I see the muscle disappearing from around the organs and detaching iself from the bones. I see the organs gradually fade into transparency leaving a gleaming skeleton gleaming like ivory that slowly resolves until it becomes dust. I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms. I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands. If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours I would. It makes me weep to feel the history of your flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss. It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer. All these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain. ~ David Wojnarowicz

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same. ~ David Horowitz