Pedro Martinez Quotes

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

Health, God, Give

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

Help, Game, Actually

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

Baseball, Before, Become

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

Miss, Atmosphere, Competing

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
Pedro Martinez

Politics, Doubt, Involved

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

Sometimes, Here, Kids

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

Consider, Teams

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

Business, Baseball, Understand

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

Respect, Give, Play

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.
Pedro Martinez

Thankful, Taking, Illegal

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

Bad, Wanted, Stage

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

Good, Follow, Steps

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

Happen, Same, Young

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

Big, Silent, Actually

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

Job, Spring, Training

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

Some of the things I've done are really special.
Pedro Martinez

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
Pedro Martinez

Miss, Questions, Media

The game doesn't change.
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

Tell, Last, Used

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

Sacrifice, Body, Execute

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

Fun, Baseball, Play

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

Time, Keep, Plan

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

Mind, Wish, Said

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Biography

Nationality: Dominican Republican

Born: October 25, 1971

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