I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven! Mark Teixeira More Quotes by Mark Teixeira More Quotes From Mark Teixeira 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. Mark Teixeira husband baseball father The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player. Mark Teixeira player baseball dream 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. Mark Teixeira home running two 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. Mark Teixeira true-happiness contentment purpose My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. Mark Teixeira dad sports memories 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. Mark Teixeira unconditional-love christian son To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege. Mark Teixeira league baseball play 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. Mark Teixeira important sleep jobs 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. Mark Teixeira watches two needs I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs. Mark Teixeira player home running Education is very important to me, as is helping children. Mark Teixeira important helping children 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. Mark Teixeira home running dirty 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. Mark Teixeira crazy nice watches My goal was to go to college and come out the best player. Mark Teixeira goal player college I really expect a lot of myself. Mark Teixeira 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. Mark Teixeira mom brother baseball The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York. Mark Teixeira new-york museums son 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. Mark Teixeira team spring thinking I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is. Mark Teixeira italian player 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. Mark Teixeira team spring fun
