You have to take care of the seconds. The minutes, the hours, and the days will take care of themselves. Dave Martinez Read Quote
Building relationships. Communicating. Trust. Those are three things I’ve kind of instilled myself with. Dave Martinez Read Quote
The biggest thing I tell the boys is control the heartbeat. It’s hard to do, but we’ve gotta be able to control the heartbeat in big moments because it goes really quick. So just stay in that moment and focus on the moment, don’t get ahead of yourselves, and just play the game that we’ve been playing all year. Dave Martinez Read Quote
I’ve had many managers, and learned a lot from them, the good ones always stayed even-keeled, never rode the waves. Dave Martinez Read Quote
The one thing I always hear from the players is they say, ‘You never change… no matter what happens, you have conversations with us, you are always positive.’ They appreciate that. Dave Martinez Read Quote
I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, ‘Hey, we’ve got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You’ve got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can’t happen.’ Dave Martinez Read Quote
