Mark Teixeira
As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.Collection: Leadership
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 want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
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.
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.
I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
I love Tumi because of the lifetime guarantee. And their luggage is just so solid. Looks good. Versatile. My carry-on bag is Tumi. My hanging bag is Tumi. My big suitcase is Tumi. All black. Love it.
I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.
I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.
I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.
Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.
Education is very important to me, as is helping children.
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
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.
I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.
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.
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.
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.
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.
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.Collection: Baseball
The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.Collection: Baseball
I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.Collection: Games
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.Collection: Running
I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.Collection: Mind
I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].Collection: Yankees
To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Forgive Me
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.Collection: Christian
I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!Collection: Yankees
I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.Collection: Spring
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.Collection: Opposites
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.Collection: Games
I have no problem with the arbitration process.Collection: Arbitration
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.Collection: Player
It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.Collection: Basketball
There's no question that I love playing in Texas. I love the fans. I love everything about Texas.Collection: Texas
I don't play baseball first. I put Christ first in my life. I put my family behind Him and I put baseball down the line. I obviously want to succeed. I want to do well. I want to perform. But at the same time, I'm at peace that no matter what happens on this earth, the more important part is being a Christian, and being in the Kingdom of Heaven when it's all said and done.Collection: Christian
God has forgiven everything that I've ever done. If someone does something to hurt my family or me, I can always forgive them. It keeps hate and anger out of my heart.Collection: Hurt
We can't be perfect all the time and that's okay. In the heat of the battle, in the heat of the moment, you might say things or do things that aren't right, but at the same time, Christ forgives us. Christ will always forgive you.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Kids
If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.Collection: Jobs
One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.Collection: Couple
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.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Running
My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.Collection: Running
Switch-hitting is one of the greatest things in the world and one of the worst things in the world.Collection: World
I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: College
I love first base. I want to get better.Collection: Get Better