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.
My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.
This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
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 off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.
I just want to play baseball.
I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.
This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.
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 what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.
I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.
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'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.
I come to play everyday.
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.
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.
Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.
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 just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.
All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.
Negativity doesn't help me.
People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.
What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.
