Pedro Martinez Quotes

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

Pedro Martinez

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• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Action
  • Baseball
  • Slow

• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Baseball
  • Down

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Happy
  • Interesting
  • Baseball

• I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Baseball
  • Very
  • Follow

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Different
  • Think
  • Feeling

• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
  • Game
  • Hate

• Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Baseball

• Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Music
  • Home

• I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Persons
  • Burned
  • Wheels

• I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Yourself

• When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

• When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Age
  • Name

• As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Comedy
  • Mainstream

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

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Baseball