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I come to play everyday.
My teammates are the best.
I stress a lot, sometimes.
Negativity doesn't help me.
I just want to play baseball.
I try to do things the right way.
I guess the rules aren't for everyone.
I've always been my own hitting coach.
Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
You can never fall in love with a team.
The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.
My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.
I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.
I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.
Some people think I'm mean, until they get to know me.
People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.
What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.
Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.
I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.
This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.
You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.
All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
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.
I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.
I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.
My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.
I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
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.
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.
Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.