David Ortiz Quotes

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I prefer that people are now talking about me as a player rather than about my hair.

I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

All the top guys are complete players, and if I'm not, I won't be there.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.

Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin.

You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

Somebody can always use me. They can always use a dominant defensive player.

Pedro has special qualities. He adds a lot, dribbling, scoring, keeping the pitch wide. He's always ready to compete.