In my country, the Dominican Republic, people are very excited about the World Baseball Classic. People are always asking me, ‘Are you going to play? Are you going to play?’ It’s what they want to...

We didn’t score seven runs tonight, so that’s why we didn’t win. Good night.

You gotta do what you gotta do. They keep taking a lot of hits away from me between first and second. I just got to keep doing it.

It’s the end of the season, … We don’t want to play against the A’s in Baltimore on the day off.

I was at somebody’s birthday. There was a lot of food, bro. I had to take some of it home.

Anybody can go through tough times, but I knew that things are going to be this way at the end of the season. For some reason, I had this feeling, … They have a good...

He handled it great. Johnny’s a great guy. He’s a funny guy with a great personality. What he got out there from the fans was great because you don’t forget about good things and I...

We don’t want to have Manny out of the game because he was hustling on a double play,

It was unbelievable. That’s the Schilling everybody knows.

Manny is not returning to Boston.

That’s his problem. That’s his decision. Manny will be fine.

You got to run out anything, … But he hit the ball right at the shortstop. He doesn’t run like Johnny Damon. I understand if you run hard, you’re going to make people happy. But...

That’s the way it was over there. They make you be a little (expletive) hitter. If you don’t be a little (expletive) hitter, you don’t play.

We know how good a pitcher Curt Schilling is. The opposing team is prepared to put good swings on him. When he’s pitching like he did last Saturday, everybody knows he has it and teams...

Whenever he makes a mistake, you’ve got to try to not miss that pitch, because you might not see it again.

If we don’t come in first place [in the East] . . ..

We live it every day.

Lilly, he seems like every time we face him, it must be his best night. When you as a hitter feel confidence about a pitcher you faced before and hit really good against, and it...

They are a lot alike out there. They have the same style.

You don’t like (this) position, but they’ve been playing well. They’ve been hitting a lot, especially lately. You want to go into a series with those guys at least even. You don’t want to go...

If I hit a homer, it doesn’t matter. We still would have been down by a bunch of runs. I was trying to at least get on base. If Manny hits a homer, we’re closer.

Whoever has the best pitching will win the series. There will be a lot of excitement in these games with the Yankees. Players can go snow cold or 130 degrees. I’ve seen guys on our...

I don’t waste my time, man — they don’t think a DH can win the MVP, … I’m just going to keep on playing. I’m not going to think about that because it’s all politics.

The Yankees, they probably could play no worse than what they did early in the season. They?re not going to play any worse than that, guaranteed. The way those guys are playing over there right...

The beginning of the playoffs.

Johnny is like a brother to me and I want to see the positive side. I know there were some boos, but I saw a lot of people clapping, too. You just couldn’t hear it...

I don’t know. We will see what happens. I’m 30 years old. I have some years to go.

Sometimes, when you get a pitcher throwing as many pitches as that, with the next hitter, they try and stay in the strike zone more and not waste as many pitches, … I guess that’s...

I spoke with him last week before he left for Brazil and he told me that he wants to go to a team in the West.

I don’t know. When you’re representing your country, you want to do anything that it takes to win. I don’t think it’s any different.

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

I’ve never seen anybody hit a ball harder than that guy.

The Yankees won. Cleveland won. So we’ve got to pull this one out.

As long as they throw you pitches that you can hit, you’ve got to try to not miss it,

When 9/11 happened, nobody expected anything like that. No one was prepared for anything like that. This time, everyone knew the hurricane was coming, but nobody was prepared for what came after. You turn on...

There’s a passion for the game in Latin America. It’s the fans, the players, the managers, the coaches, everyone involved in the game. Everyone had such passion. You saw it today.

The best thing that ever happened to this team was winning this game tonight. Everybody was on their toes.

Actually, we were talking about hitting way before the game, and I was telling him that sometimes right-handed hitters get confused with the Green Monster and was telling him not to get caught in between....

That kind of puts you in a good mood, … When you’re walking to the plate like that, you feel like Superman. You feel like, I can’t let my people down.

It seems like any time we face him, it must be his best night.

For a minute, … it gave me a flashback for what happened last year.

That’s how you win an MVP — getting into the playoffs and winning the World Series, … All I want to do is get into the playoffs one way or another.

What can you do? … Nothing but keep fighting.

I knew it was going to be like this at the end of the season. I had a good feeling.

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

Ortiz said. ”We are the same age. We hang out together. Watching TV together and seeing what was going on in New Orleans, we knew we had to do something.

I want to challenge other baseball players to come out and do something for these people because they really need our help.

I found out that they are doing whatever is possible to trade him.

This is the guy that you guys can find a lot about Manny [from].

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.