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My goal was to go to college and come out the best player.

Mark Teixeira

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Mark Teixeira
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 11
Baseball Player
Annapolis
Maryland
Mark Charles Teixeira
College
Player
Goal
Best
Come

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To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
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My biggest thing is I need to see a lot of pitches, which I did today. That's good. The more pitches you see, the better your timing is going to be. But it's going to be impossible to see enough pitches. No matter how many pitches you see, it's still going to be March 6.
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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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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 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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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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I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.
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You can never completely get it - being a Christian - but I think I really got it when my first son was born in 2006. I just realized the love that God has for all of us. It was seeing my son born and knowing the unconditional love that I have for him.
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The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.
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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 want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
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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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It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.
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It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.
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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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Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.
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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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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.
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I really expect a lot of myself.
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