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.

Eleventh inning, man. You’ve got to bring your A game, … Those guys, you can’t be giving them a lot of chances.

It’s going be good, bro. I like being home.

One thing I know is that Gabe is a tough guy. He’s a guy that is not afraid of pain. So when I see everybody running on the field to get him up, I knew...

When you’re out there playing, you don’t think the game’s going to be on your back.

He’ll be fine. That’s Manny being Manny.

We have a couple arrangements of piano pieces, a xylophone rag or two, an arrangement of an orchestral piece, an arrangement of a piece from an opera composer, and a quartet for mallet percussion and...

I hit it good. You had to hit it good with that wind blowing 100 mph.

Oh, yeah, especially in Tampa. You know why.

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.

I come to play everyday.

You know what, the last time they were here, we went back to my house. We hung out together,

Tonight was a crazy night. It was cold out there and sometimes pitchers don?t find the grip on the ball when the weather is like that. You just have to fight, fight, fight until somebody...

Like I said, I haven’t been seeing too many pitches to hit, so I was looking for something over the plate, and I got it.

The Greatest Clutch Hitter in the History of the Boston Red Sox.

I just want to challenge baseball people to come out and do something for these people. These people really need our help. All of us make enough money to donate something. Let’s put it together...

We have to pick each other up. Our pitching, they’ve been up and down. They pick us up a lot. We need to do the same thing. It’s not like they want to give it...

It’s quiet, man. Last year, Millar would have been busting on me right now.

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

Don’t believe anyone until it’s (signed). I’ll let you know when I do.

[Saturday] night, we got whacked. Today, David just held them down. Don’t let that team fool you. They can hit. If you make a mistake against them, any one of those guys will hurt you.

It’s the 11th inning, man. You got to bring your ‘A’ game, like I always say. Against those guys, you can’t take your chances. They’ve been coming back on us the whole season.

I ain’t going to beat everybody. If I’m a pitcher, I would take no chance with Manny [ Ramirez ]. Manny is a box full of surprises. He’s very excited right now. He’s very into...

We’re still on top. The problem is when you go under.

We have the future Roger Clemens in the house, … That kid, man, I’ll tell you, this guy is something else.

I’ve been here four years and that is the best team they’ve had.

When you walk to the plate like that and the crowd is screaming like that, … it makes you feel like Superman.

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

I can’t believe my boy [Arroyo] is gone. [But] I’ve never seen a guy hit a ball harder than that guy [Pena]. … No, not even [me]. He’s 24 years old, he’s just a baby....

To win ballgames, you need both, … The game situations will tell you what you need.

That’s him, man. That’s the Manny everybody knows.

The last time they were here, we went back to my house, … We hung out together. He was telling me, `I remember when we were coming up with Seattle.’ Alex, when he got to...

I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing wrong with being famous. I guess that some guys are a little bit afraid. If you don’t want to be famous, just step away. Other people are afraid to...

You had to hit it good with the wind blowing like 100 miles an hour.

When I have in my mind that you have a good fastball, it doesn’t matter how nasty you are with some of the other pitches,

He was all right. He got away with some mistakes.

No doubt. August took forever.

Hopefully it will get better before we start playing.

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

I don’t want to worry, now that we’re in the season. That’s my work, right there. We didn’t get anything done in spring training, I guess. You know how it is.

Johnny Pesky told me nobody hit the ball harder than Williams,

I’m just trying to break the rules,

They wouldn’t be celebrating right now without Mariano.

Dude, are you going to be talking all day?

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I...

I’ve been here four years and that might be the best team I’ve seen that they have.

I heard he was going to the dugout. If you go off the field you’re out? There’d be a lot of football players coming out of our dugout.

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

I know what happened [in Boston]. It was playing time and more at-bats. You can’t make something happen from the bench. You have to be on the field.

Wakefield’s a guy who you don’t really want to face right now. The guy gets you off. I don’t think it’s a good idea to hit against him right now.