Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by J. D. Martinez
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes.
It's fun coming to the ballpark when you're winning.
My whole life, I've felt like I've always had to prove myself. It's never been easy, as easy as others who are in my position have had it.
Whoever's hitting in front of you or behind you is going to determine how you get pitched, but there's nothing you can do.
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.
Everyone here has a right to their own political beliefs and everybody has the right to stand by what they believe in. That's what makes us American.
I'll never say a bad word about the Astros.
I'm a very analytical guy, I like to study my swing, I like to study what my back foot is doing, my elbow, whatever it might be, and there's a lot of guys nowadays that are like that. That's the trend of the game, that's the way the game has gone.
Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.
I think the one thing I have learned the most from all the veteran guys is kinda like not to dwell on a loss or a bad day.
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 as successful.
Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose.
You can say baseball's fun, you're in the big leagues, you get to come to a Major League field every day - and, yeah, that's great. I love it.
I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.
You know, this league is all about adjustments, and the one thing you kinda notice when you're playing every day is how teams make adjustments. Once you start having a little bit of success, they are going to make their adjustment.
I stand by the Constitution and I stand by the Second Amendment and it's something that I take pride in. It's something that I'll back up.
Obviously, this is a job, it's a grind, but it's what you love to do. It's your passion.
To me, you can always get better.
You can ask every coach from Ron Gardenhire to Dave Clark, anyone who has seen me play, they don't know why they say I'm a bad defender.
Everyone's path is their own.
I had to lower my hands, I had to work my hips a different way. I also had to stride to get the power. I'd always been a standstill hitter and had to generate power from my upper body. Basically, I had to change everything I was doing. It was really difficult.
My parents taught me that in life, you get out what you put in.
There aren't too many Mookie Betts, Mike Trouts or Bryce Harpers out there to be grabbed. Those players only come around once every 10 years.
To me, I just play baseball, whether I have the contract or not.
I've been on a bunch of teams in my career.
You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?
It sucks when you can't play the game you love.
I love my country. I love this country.
I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'
I busted my butt in '15. Then in '16, I broke my arm running into a wall, so then I got scared of running into walls because I didn't want to get hurt again.
We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great.
Control what I can control. Study the pitchers, work hard, put the work in. That's all I can control.
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, I struck out, but that's OK.'
People are always asking if I was mad at Houston. Honestly, I'm not. The truth of the matter is that when I was there, I didn't perform and they actually did me a favor by cutting me loose. They could have really held me there, not let me leave, bury me in Triple-A, put me behind some prospects and I would never even play.
Let's say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That's not easy to do.
I found a place in Boston, a home in Boston, and I'm pretty happy here.
That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.
When I fall behind, my swing changes.
I mean, I learned a lot from Houston. And you know what? It made me who I am and there's really no animosity there. In a sense, they did me a favor by allowing me to leave and going to play on another team.
I wish I could go up every single time and have guys on base.
I think I'm a funny guy.
My preparation and my routine are the foundations to my success.
I love the game and I love to play. You have to admire fans who are the same way.
I want to win championships.
I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.
I love my story. I wouldn't change it. It gives it character. It's never been on a silver spoon.
That's the hardest play in baseball, is a line drive right at you.
We want the fans to be in it, because when they're in it, it makes you kind of live up to it.
I've always been hungry, but when people ask what drives you - 'How do you stay so driven throughout this whole thing?' - you just don't stop. It's every single day. The people that know me and the people that love me and are in my life see it.
I told Pedro this story: I used to wear a freakin' Pedro Martinez jersey because it had 'Martinez' on the back.
All through Miami, the guys who grew up with me hitting at the place I hit, they all call me Flaco. Nobody calls me J.D. It's like, 'Hey, Flaco.'
I get to play what I dreamed about since I was a kid. So, on that end, I love it. But I also take pride in it.
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 about it.
Obviously, I'm sad to leave Houston. I love the fans and players and everyone here.
Obviously, I have to do what's best for me and my family; I've got to put that first. But I definitely want to be on a team that's in contention.
Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive.
Rodney Linares really stuck his neck out in Greenville to play me, because they had their prospects, guys who they had invested money in.
I've always loved hitting, and even as a kid, I always hit.
I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.
I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.
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