Top 35 Pedro Martinez Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “I love my teammates, and I’ll do anything for them.”

— Pedro Martinez

3. “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

4. “We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.”

— Pedro Martinez

5. “Baseball is a game of the soul.”

— Pedro Martinez

6. “All I can say is, I will put my heart and soul into helping the Red Sox win.”

— Pedro Martinez

7. “If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.”

— Pedro Martinez

8. “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

9. “I do miss competing, being out there – the atmosphere, I do miss it.”

— Pedro Martinez

10. “I want to feel secure personally. Have a competitive team out there – I really want to win; I hate losing – and, I guess, I want to be treated like a normal person.”

— Pedro Martinez

11. “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

12. “There was always something missing in Montreal.”

— Pedro Martinez

13. “The bigger the contract, the bigger the responsibility.”

— Pedro Martinez

14. “Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.”

— Pedro Martinez

15. “Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn’t have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.”

— Pedro Martinez

16. “I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.”

— Pedro Martinez

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

— Pedro Martinez

18. “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

19. “If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don’t think I’m in that stage.”

— Pedro Martinez

20. “When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It’s important to get on base and get some walks, but I don’t go to the plate thinking of walking.”

— Pedro Martinez

21. “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

22. “You can’t have a family when you’re playing because you’re away from home so much. So believe me, I won’t be pitching forever. I won’t make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.”

— Pedro Martinez

23. “I’m not in the big leagues just because I’m cute.”

— Pedro Martinez

24. “Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.”

— Pedro Martinez

25. “I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That’s something I don’t have in me.”

— Pedro Martinez

26. “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

27. “I’m thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.”

— Pedro Martinez

28. “Before, if I wasn’t in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.”

— Pedro Martinez

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

— Pedro Martinez

30. “Some of the things I’ve done are really special.”

— Pedro Martinez

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.”

— Pedro Martinez

37. “I believe I have a responsibility that goes along with the money I make. I can help a lot of people.”

— Pedro Martinez

38. “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