Pedro Martinez Quotes

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

- Pedro Martinez

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.

- Pedro Martinez

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

- Pedro Martinez

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

- Pedro Martinez

You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.

- Pedro Martinez

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

- Pedro Martinez

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

- Pedro Martinez

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

- Pedro Martinez

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

- Pedro Martinez

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.

- Pedro Martinez

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

- Pedro Martinez

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

- Pedro Martinez

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

- Pedro Martinez

I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

- Pedro Martinez

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

- Pedro Martinez

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

- Pedro Martinez

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

- Pedro Martinez

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

- Pedro Martinez

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

- Pedro Martinez

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

- Pedro Martinez