Dustin Pedroia Quotations

My goal is to play in the season, not Spring Training games. It would be nice to get out there and show them what I can do. But in the meantime I need to get myself ready for Opening Day and get out there playing, that's the biggest thing. I'm just resting right now, just doing all the rehab stuff, just kind of shutting baseball down a little bit.

He had pretty filthy stuff. He's telling us where it's going and it was still tough to hit. He looks like he's in midseason form.

Right when I swung, I was like, 'Oh, my God!' because it was the worst pain ever. I knew right away that I'd done something. It's frustrating because it happened on my very first swing.

When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

I hope to play for the Red Sox a long time.

Just because somebody swings one way and I swing another way doesn't mean he's better than me or I'm better than him ... Does my swing get hits? Yes.

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

It's been fun back at short and switching off to play second every now and then. It makes practice a lot more fun.

I'm not putting pressure on myself. I'm 22 years old. I just want to be healthy, go out there and play hard and just play my game.