147 Quotes by Mark Teixeira

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

We've got four All-Stars in there. You can make a case for all of them. They're all playing really well.

When he gets hot, he can carry a team for a long time.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

We did have some opportunities because of the errors. We did capitalize on one of them, but their pitching was just too good. Colon is one of the best pitchers in the league and he showed that again against us.

When the swelling goes down and the pain goes down, we'll see how it goes.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.