J. D. Martinez Quotes

Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.

I analyse my games for club and country. I look at what I could have done better and learn.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I watch all our games again at home and I know when I have made a mistake and when I haven't.

I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.

There's a lot of things that go into scoring touchdowns and leading your team. It's not just the game itself, but going back and studying tape to pick apart everything I did. It's nice to have something to go on, doing it full speed in a game situation.

I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time.

I think a lot about my own game.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.

I don't really watch video, but I see the replay; like when I do strike out, and I'm walking back to the dugout, I look up and see if they do show the replay of me swinging and missing.

I'm a person who looks at myself, and after every game, I like to reflect on my performance, not just the team.

After the training session, video analysis. You can see the good and the bad, show players how to improve. Not because I want to find blame. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes of video is more important than three training sessions.

What I don't like too much really is individual comments about the performances of the players after the game.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

It's always tricky to watch yourself, always. When I first had to watch myself, it was really hard because I'd done quite a few plays and I've never seen myself. So I was professional but I'd never watched myself. So I was like hearing you know... I'm sure you guys are all much more familiar with that because everybody has a phone, and everyone's taking pictures of themselves and making movies of themselves. And so people are more accustomed to it now. So I had to get used to it because there's a lot to be learned, of course, as an actor. When you watch yourself, you learn a lot.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

I'm around the stadium all the time watching film, just trying to learn as much as I can.

I was a little nervous at my first match, but I think I did OK. I went home after the match and watched the tape of it over and over. I wanted to do it again.

Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.