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" What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing. "

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

" 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. "

" I stress a lot, sometimes. "

" 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. "

" I just want to play baseball. "

" You can never fall in love with a team. "

" Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play. "

Looking Forward

" I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it. "

" I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career. "

" I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings. "

" The fans know that I don't give at-bats away. "

" You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can. "

" People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair. "

" Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal. "

" Negativity doesn't help me. "

" 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. "

" Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself. "

" A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you. "

" You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better. "

" My mom, she's still always there for me. Always. "

" I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet. "

" 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 a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me. "

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

" My teammates are the best. "

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

" 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 a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball. "

" I try to do things the right way. "

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