True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
The bigger the contract, the bigger the responsibility.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.
In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.