147 Quotes by Mark Teixeira

It celebrates the whole world and gives us a chance to show the world how great the game is. I'm half Italian and my name is Portuguese. The great thing about this is the United States is the melting pot.

I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family's not around, when I'm on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I'm pretty boring.

I think we have to feel good. We started the season playing pretty poorly all around. To be where we are right now, we can't complain.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

I want to win this thing more than anybody. And to be playing against the best players in the world, you want to win even more.

You can't go wrong going with the United States and picking us as the favorites.

I want to win more than anybody. You put us up against the rest of the world, and I'm going to want to win even more.

You can put up great numbers, and everybody wants to do that. But if you don't win, it's an empty feeling for yourself and your fans.

Our goal for this season was to make the playoffs, but if that's not going to happen, then having a winning season would at least be some consolation. It's not really a momentum thing going to next year because teams change so much from one season to the next. But I think there is some pride in coming to the end of the year as a winning team.