"I think about my journey sometimes." — J. D. Martinez

I grew up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you could see it from one extreme to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

I found a place in Boston, a home in Boston, and I'm pretty happy here.

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'

I always talk about it like I'm a hitter first and if I'm doing things right and my body's in the right place, I drive the baseball.

Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose.

I've always loved hitting, and even as a kid, I always hit.

Everything happens for a reason.

Whenever you see me and I'm hitting ground ball after ground ball, you know I'm not feeling right.

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I think about my journey sometimes.