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 Image
I get to play what I dreamed about since I was a kid. So, on that end, I love it. But I… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
You can ask every coach from Ron Gardenhire to Dave Clark, anyone who has seen me play, they don't know why they… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Rodney Linares really stuck his neck out in Greenville to play me, because they had their prospects, guys who they had invested… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I played street basketball for a while and wanted to play competitively, but I was so used to the street-style of game… — 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
I mean, I learned a lot from Houston. And you know what? It made me who I am and there's really no… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he… — 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 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
