Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

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.

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.

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

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.

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