Dave Martinez Quotes

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

I like passionate fandom.

On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

Everyone romanticizes somebody.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

Football is unconditional love.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

The fans on 'Pretty Little Liars' were the craziest fans I've ever met in my life in the best possible way. The dedication that those fans have to the show and the characters is amazing.

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

I dote on his very absence.

Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.

I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.

I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.

The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion.

For me, football was everything. The love of the ball was everything.

They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them that they're just dedicated and loyal.

I think NBA fans are some of the smartest you'll ever come around. They are very invested.