Top 50 David Ortiz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I guess the rules aren’t for everyone.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

3. “I just want to play baseball.”

— David Ortiz

4. “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.”

— David Ortiz

5. “I just swing hard in case I hit it – that’s it.”

— David Ortiz

6. “My teammates are the best.”

— David Ortiz

7. “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.”

— David Ortiz

8. “This is our f – g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

10. “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.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

12. “Through the years I’ve been getting better and better and better, and it’s what you learn though the seasons.”

— David Ortiz

13. “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.”

— David Ortiz

14. “Sometimes when you’re fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.”

— David Ortiz

15. “I’m very mechanical, so if I have one thing that’s going in the wrong direction when I’m hitting, it’s hard for me to get a hit.”

— David Ortiz

16. “I come to play everyday.”

— David Ortiz

17. “I swing hard all the time. That’s what I’ve done my whole life-hit.”

— David Ortiz

18. “All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.”

— David Ortiz

19. “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.”

— David Ortiz

20. “My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was fine because they taught me how to do everything right.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

22. “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

23. “Some people think I’m mean, until they get to know me.”

— David Ortiz

24. “I’m an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.”

— David Ortiz

25. “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.”

— David Ortiz

26. “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.”

— David Ortiz

27. “This jersey that we’re wearing today doesn’t say Red Sox. It says Boston.”

— David Ortiz

28. “What I don’t want to do is just play for the sake of playing.”

— David Ortiz

29. “I’m just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody’s time is up at some point, I don’t think that’s my problem. I’m just going to keep on trying like I normally do.”

— David Ortiz

30. “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.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

33. “Negativity doesn’t help me.”

— David Ortiz

34. “I stress a lot, sometimes.”

— David Ortiz

35. “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 those special hitters.”

— David Ortiz

36. “I’m going to be done when I’ve decided that I’m done.”

— David Ortiz

37. “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.”

— David Ortiz

38. “I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody’s feelings.”

— David Ortiz

39. “My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.”

— David Ortiz

40. “I don’t try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it’s a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you’re trying to increase – you’re not all the way through it with your vision.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

42. “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.”

— David Ortiz

43. “I showed people that it’s not about guessing what people can do. It’s about saying, ‘Here, show me what you can do.’”

— David Ortiz

44. “I try to do things the right way.”

— David Ortiz

45. “I’ve always been my own hitting coach.”

— David Ortiz

46. “I’m the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.”

— David Ortiz

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

— David Ortiz

48. “What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.”

— David Ortiz

49. “You can never fall in love with a team.”

— David Ortiz

50. “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.”

— David Ortiz