Mark Teixeira
Mark Teixeira
Mark Charles Teixeirais an American Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees. Before playing in the MLB, he played college baseball at Georgia Tech, where in 2001 he won the Dick Howser Trophy as the national collegiate baseball player of the year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth11 April 1980
CityAnnapolis, MD
CountryUnited States of America
get-better firsts want
I love first base. I want to get better.
college years league
I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.
growing-up college giving
I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.
baseball play league
To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
running needs bigs
I've always felt that I need to be somebody in the middle of the lineup that's going to drive in runs and come up with big hits.
play games realizing
I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.
cake baltimore crabs
Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
contentment purpose true-happiness
If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.
sports new-york cake
I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.
home order color
My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.
nice crazy suits
I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.
yankees skins razors
I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
running dirty kids
I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
college years best-year
College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.