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.
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.
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.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
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 a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
I just want to play baseball.
I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.
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.
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 swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.
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.
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.
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 come to play everyday.
I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.
This jersey that we're wearing today doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston.
What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.
Negativity doesn't help me.
People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.
All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.
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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