I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Just kind of finding it, that's what Spring Training is for, to work on stuff and get ready. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
When I'm at my best, I'm ready to hit from pitch one. When I go up there and I'm passive, I'm not… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I always talk about it like I'm a hitter first and if I'm doing things right and my body's in the right… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
The last thing I wanted to do was get buried in Triple-A behind prospects. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Man, it literally starts from after the game. I get every at-bat sent to me from the game. I'll go home, I'll… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
That's why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there's a new pitcher, and you… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day -… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like,… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
There aren't too many Mookie Betts, Mike Trouts or Bryce Harpers out there to be grabbed. Those players only come around once… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
People are always asking if I was mad at Houston. Honestly, I'm not. The truth of the matter is that when I… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know.… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Whoever's hitting in front of you or behind you is going to determine how you get pitched, but there's nothing you can… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I love the game and I love to play. You have to admire fans who are the same way. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah,… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
I'd say the challenge of DHing is going to be learning the routine and to stay loose and stay warm and kind of be… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
My teammate Torii Hunter taught me how to lead and provide encouragement to the locker room. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
I want to be on a team that's got a chance. That's what's fun. That's what you play the game for. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things worked in… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share
