David Ortiz Quotes

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

There's some glory years, where if you play long enough and you've figured the game out, and physically you're still healthy enough, there are some years in there where you can really be productive. And those are fun years.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

I am hoping for a long career.

Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it's really about feeling good and taking care of my body rather than having to fit into any sort of model or anything like that. I try to eat well, and everything I do is really just to make me feel my best so that I can come to my job or my personal life and just feel really good.

Being fit is almost as important to me as my face. And for me, it's a combination of being spiritually and physically fit. There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.

You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

I take really good care of myself, and I make sure that my body's in tip-top condition, and I stay on top of everything - eat right and do everything else to make sure that I can play for a long time.

I want to have a long career.

What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

If you look after yourself and are willing to adapt - there is no reason why you can't play at the top level until your late 30s.

I wanna play until I am 45 if my body will let me. After football, I have no idea.

I'm thankful that I have been able to play so long and still be healthy. I'm not all banged up and beaten down. I still feel good. But as much as I would love to play forever, I know that I can't.

I won't have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

You don't want to have a fast career for two years. You want to have an amazing career for 20 years.