J. D. Martinez Quotes

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

When I'm on the field, I just do my job.

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.

My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.

I don't care where I play, and wherever I do play, I'll play hard and give everything I got.

I am different as soon as I am on the pitch, because I had to fight so much and work so hard to become a professional footballer, so I have to give everything that I can.

We don't even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We're going to just keep trying to do our jobs.

Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.