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
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What I like about this year compared to last year is that I really haven't had a lot of fluctuation from big highs to big lows, ... When you do that, your team can count on you pretty much every game to make a contribution.
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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.
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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.
college years best-year
College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.
crazy hate years
Agents are probably going to hate me for saying it... You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike Trout, making the minimum, you are crazy valuable. My first six years, before I was a free agent, I was very valuable. But there's nothing you can do that can justify a $20 million contract.
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We are still young, but at the same time we are experienced. Most people think of young as being inexperienced, and that's not the case here.
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I'm always ready on Opening Day. It's been the weirdest Spring Training that I've ever had. The World Baseball Classic didn't help, but I feel great and my body feels great.
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When the swelling goes down and the pain goes down, we'll see how it goes.
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We did have some opportunities because of the errors. We did capitalize on one of them, but their pitching was just too good. Colon is one of the best pitchers in the league and he showed that again against us.
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I think Roger Clemens knows what he wants. If he's got any questions, we'll be happy to answer them. Hopefully, he's leaning this way ... but I'm not going to go over there and bend his ear for 2 1/2 weeks about coming to play for us.
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It doesn't mean that much unless the team wins, ... Individual goals are great, but when I'm watching the playoffs, it won't mean that much.
playing poorly season
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.
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That was the hardest ball ever hit to me down at first base.
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I thought I was safe. As I came in, I saw a small piece of the plate and I slid to it. If a catcher has the plate blocked off, I'm either going to slide around him or run him over. But I saw a small piece of the late and slid to it and beat it by two steps.