J. D. Martinez Quotes

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I was 7, I played on an all-girls club team.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

As a child I had a lot of energy and took to sports.

I have always been into sports, right from school.

I grew up very active, and my parents made me try every single sport there was.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.