The Dustin Pedroia Quote Book.

[Dipre]

"There are football players who work out at Athletes’ Performance, and they’d be walking around completely jacked, and I’d ask them when they were getting on their Jenny Craig diets. One humongous guy was always talking s*** at me. So I did a set of bench presses, ripped off my shirt, and threw it at him. He started popping off. he said, ‘Who the hell is that little white guy?’

 

Somebody said, ‘That’s the Rookie of the Year.’

 

‘That guy? I thought he was in high school …’

 

I was ready to kick his ass right there. Or maybe I was just ready to attempt to.

"

 

"I’ll never forget that play, for a lot of reasons. One was that when I was coming out for the top of the inning, I’d put a humongous load of sunflower seeds in my mouth, and now I was standing out at my position thinking, F—-, I just put an entire bag of sunflower seeds in my mouth. It was a little hard to breathe. And besides that, I had to pee.

 

So really, I was hoping it would be a quick inning…I was just thinking, Whatever happens here, if the ball comes my way I just hope I don’t either choke on my sunflower seeds or pee my pants. That was pretty much the whole thing on my mind the whole inning.

 

Sure enough, Tejada hit a chopper…I went after it, and I swear if you look closely at the replay, you can see the sunflower seeds just spraying out of my mouth. I mean, they were just flying everywhere…

 

…I think all those seeds shooting out of my mouth actually gave me the speed to get to that ball. In fact I’m sure of that."

 

from Pedroia’s autobiography, Born to Play, recalling his play on 9/1/2007 that preserved Clay Buchholz’s no-hitter.

 

"I mean, I made it, and some of you are probably bigger than me."

 

lecturing elementary school kids about how they should eat their Wheaties, follow their dreams, etc., Aug. 2007

 

"

 

I got to the ballpark…and went into the outfield and said…’Hey, Manny, I heard you met my wife at the gas station in Cape Coral.’

 

He said, ‘No, I didn’t meet your wife. I met Pedey’s wife.’

 

I said, ‘No, Manny, that’s my wife.’

 

He said, ‘No. No. That’s Pedey’s wife!’

 

I said, ‘Manny, what the f—-? I am Pedey! What the hell is wrong with you?’ I was arguing with Manny Ramirez over whether I was me. He almost had me believing I wasn’t.

 

At the start of the season, I didn’t think he even knew who the hell I was. I didn’t know what was going on. After that it was kind of weird. I told some of the guys and they said, ‘Dude, listen. he really doesn’t know you yet. When he gets to know you he’ll remember your name and s*** like that.’

 

‘Oh, okay. That sounds good’.

 

How was this not posted before?

 

http://pedroiaquotebook.tumblr.com/

[italstallianion]

I was expecting a reference to that Playstation 3 commercial. "How many MVP's you know that can't hit that pitch?"

[Dipre]

And for further lolz, the beard of truth:

 

http://www.beardoftruth.com/

[yeszir]

That last one is hilarious

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Lmao, I'm definetely following that on my tumblr.

[boy racer]

God if i still had a tumblr I'd enjoy to see that pop up on my dashboard every day.

[WhiskeyBreath]

I've heard a few of these. Love listening to him on WEEI.

[bsox0407]

f***ing A. man. Pedey is a beast. My favorite is the Laser Show quote.

[BSN07]

Absolute gold

[boy racer]

His text to Millar is the best.

 

"Did you bring your glasses for the laser show tonight?"

[Dojji]

Solid confidence.

[SoxFanForsyth]

After his 3 HR game in Colorado -

 

"You guys are going to have to have an endorsement handing out chest protectors to the people in the outfield stands next time I play here"

 

For the record - I saw this thread and immediately went out and bought his Born to Play book.

[bsox0407]

After his 3 HR game in Colorado -

 

"You guys are going to have to have an endorsement handing out chest protectors to the people in the outfield stands next time I play here"

 

For the record - I saw this thread and immediately went out and bought his Born to Play book.

 

It is a really good book.

[boy racer]

Haha. How is it?

[bsox0407]

Haha. How is it?

 

Well worth the buy. you'll learn a lot about him. About how he almost lost his career. And he reasons for being him. lol

[SoxFanForsyth]

I just got the ebook on amazon last night, so I have been reading it as much as possible but I'm still in the beginning of the book. So far, though, it's pretty funny and it's cool to see how he's always had this chip on his shoulder.

[DirtDog]

Anyone recall this quote from a a week or two ago about how Terry Francona was a "tool" and how the excitement of the 2011 Red Sox compares to the 2000 Sacremento Kings when they had Vlade Divac and Chris Webber. They would have won if they weren't jobbed by the refs and Tim Donaghy. The whole rant was hilarious.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Haha. I remember that - said Francona pours water on himself to make it look like he's working out when he really just doesn't do s***.

[SoxFanForsyth]

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Jonny Miller of WBZ Radio stopped Dustin in the clubhouse this morning to ask him a few questions.

 

Miller: "Dustin are you excited about Saturday?"

 

Pedroia: "Yeah, absolutely. ... What's on Saturday?"

 

Told that it was the doubleheader against Boston College and Northeastern, Pedroia smiled.

 

"We're gonna kick BC's ass," he said.

 

The best of that was that he said "Yeah, absolutely" having no idea what Jonny meant.

[DirtDog]

was probably excited about hitting the beer bong at a party or something