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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.

Mark Teixeira

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Mark Teixeira
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 11
Baseball Player
Annapolis
Maryland
Mark Charles Teixeira
Opportunity
Opportunities
Feel
Plenty
Feels
Sorry
Baseball
Failure
Game
Somebody
Games
Upset

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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.
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You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.
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Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.
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Switch-hitting is one of the greatest things in the world and one of the worst things in the world.
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Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.
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My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.
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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.
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Christ doesn't keep score. It's not about what you do here. It's about the person you are. It's about your faith. That's one thing that I'd like for young kids or anybody to know.
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There are always things to improve on. I want to improve on my defense, and you can never be a perfect hitter. I want to focus on just playing more and being able to improve on all parts of my game.
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I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.
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I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
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It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.
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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.
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I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
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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.
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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.
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My goal was to go to college and come out the best player.
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Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
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I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.
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I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].
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