Pedro Martinez Quotes

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Pedro Martinez

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 25, 1971

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

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

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

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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.

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The game doesn't change.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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