J. D. Martinez Quotes

You have to learn how to win in this league. It's a process.

I want to take initiative; I know my game and I know what I need to do to win.

I knew that I have the game to beat the best players.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.

You can't get in the top four if you can't beat the clubs who are in the top four.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

In football, it is not important how you win, it is important that you win.

My job is to win the game each and every week and that's what I want to do, and that's all I'm worried about.

You have a big playbook when you know something is really a win.

When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

When I was coaching, I wasn't worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.

I think what is important to fight for winning the ball it is the spirit. I have had that since I started playing football, so it is the spirit but I need to be fit for doing it.

At the highest level, if you don't have a solid defensive base, you can't get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.