David Ortiz Quotes

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

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

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  Tags in Self, Fans

• 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.

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• I’ve always been my own hitting coach.

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

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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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• You can’t say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

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• You can never fall in love with a team.

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• 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.

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  Tags in People, Career

• 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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  Tags in People, Culture

• Negativity doesn’t help me.

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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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• 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.

  David Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Player

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

  David Ortiz

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Situation

• 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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  Tags in Time, Mind

• I start thinking about life after death. I’ve got to quit thinking about it because it’s very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don’t feel like you want to be alive, so I don’t like to get all quiet.

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  Topics in Death, Life

• Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I’ve had my tough times.

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  Tags in Time

• 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.

  David Ortiz

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Happy

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

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David Ortiz (40)

Birth:	18th November, 1975
Nationality:	American, Dominican
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

David Ortiz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He  is a Dominican-American professional baseball player. He is a designated hitter who occasionally plays first base for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He played for the Minnesota Twins from 1997-2002. He has hit 502 career home runs, which ranks 27th on the MLB all-time home run list.

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• 1867 - Wilbur Wright
• 1972 - Tracy K. Smith
• 1927 - Joseph Ratzinger
• 1939 - Dusty Springfield
• 1952 - Peter Westbrook

Deaths

• 1972 - Yasunari Kawabata
• 1920 - Theodore Newton Vail
• 1941 - Josiah Stamp
• 2002 - Robert Urich
• 1904 - Samuel Smiles