Pedro Martinez Quotes

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

I love going out and competing.

I'm just really excited every time I play a match.

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.

I like to compete. So, any time I get to go live - which means go all out - that's what I like to do.

I live to be in these matches.

I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.

It's a safe bet most players would get nervous before a match. I do, too, but it's more excitement and more just wanting to get going, and I feel the same.

I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

I wouldn't be in football if I was nervous. You have to look forward to games.

Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they've scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.

It's exciting to be able to go out and compete every night and show what you can do.

When people say they aren't nervous, I think they are lying about it. If you are human and you love the game, before any competition you still get those same butterflies in the stomach.