I love the game and I love to play. You have to admire fans who are the same way. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
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
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
I have so many memories of going fishing and camping as a kid, and my dad had season tickets to watch the… — 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 just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Paul Goldschmidt, who gave me the confidence to lead as one of the game's greatest players, acknowledged that what I had to… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Any time you go into the playoff game everyone's adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
I'm always just grinding and figuring out what adjustment I need to make and how to tweak my swing to where I… — 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
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
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'm a very analytical guy, I like to study my swing, I like to study what my back foot is doing, my… — 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 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, 'OK, yeah,… — 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
Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
My teammate Torii Hunter taught me how to lead and provide encouragement to the locker room. — 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 goes about… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
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
