Pedro Martinez
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
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
Pedro Martinez

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pedro Martinez

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

Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez

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

Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez

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

Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

Pedro Martinez
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
Pedro Martinez

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

Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez

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

Pedro Martinez
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
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
Pedro Martinez

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

Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez

The game doesn't change.