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
We want the fans to be in it, because when they're in it, it makes you kind of live up to it. — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
All through Miami, the guys who grew up with me hitting at the place I hit, they all call me Flaco. Nobody… — 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
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
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 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
