David Ortiz Quotes

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David Ortiz

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 18, 1975

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

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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 doing.

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My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

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

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

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I've always been my own hitting coach.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

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I just want to play baseball.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

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