David Ortiz Quotes

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• 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…
• I just want to play baseball.
• Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
• Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
• 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…
• You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
• I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
• They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or…
• I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.
• I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get…
• It doesn't matter if we were down 3-0. You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out.
• I guess the rules aren't for everyone.
• This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.
• 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…
• Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
• I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.
• I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.
• My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
• 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…
• What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.

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