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I come to play everyday.

David Ortiz

Tags: Come Play Everyday

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Oscar de la Renta

Tags: Successful Customers

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?

Joaquin Andujar

Tags: Respect Why No Respect

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: Time You People

I've always been my own hitting coach.

David Ortiz

Tags: Always Been Own

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

David Ortiz

Tags: Mom Me Always

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

Junot Diaz

Tags: Just New Kid

Some of the things I've done are really special.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: Really Things Some

You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: You Your Body

I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

David Ortiz

Tags: Never Kind Guy

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: Business Which Part

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

Oscar de la Renta

Tags: Work Me Right

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

Joaquin Andujar

Tags: Just Back Hard

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

David Ortiz

Tags: Work Like Want

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

David Ortiz

Tags: Just Got Come

Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

Alfonso Soriano

Tags: Great Best Who

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

David Ortiz

Tags: Like More Know

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

David Ortiz

Tags: You Been Years

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Andujar

Tags: You Think Something

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

Prince Royce

Tags: Always New Everything

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

Oscar de la Renta

Tags: You Want New

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Dascha Polanco

Tags: Then Years New

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

David Ortiz

Tags: You Because More

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: Just Things Being

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: Me Were Now

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: Me About Out

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

Dascha Polanco

Tags: Work Future You

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

Bill Dedman

Tags: Up His Back

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez

Tags: Mom Every Then

I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.

Dascha Polanco

Tags: Time Had Which

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.

David Ortiz

Tags: You People About

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Smedley Butler

Tags: Way See American

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Stephen Kinzer

Tags: Power Were America

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

Junot Diaz

Tags: Time Home Like

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.

Pedro Martinez

Tags: People Just Out

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