Mark Teixeira Quotes
Those are three great players, ... You can feel good about your accomplishment when you`re mentioned with those players. Hitting 40 homers is a great number that not many people get to.
It`s 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.
Any time you get named in a list like that, it`s very humbling. You see the careers those guys have had, and the career Pujols is going to have, it`s nice to be a part of that group.
best hitter in the game
It`s crazy and it`s funny. It`s an outrageous comment, an outrageous claim.
There`s a ton of room for me to grow, ... I`m still working on a lot of things and trying to get better.
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.
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.
Any time you get named in a list like that, it`s very humbling, ... To see the careers those guys have had and the career that Pujols is going to have ... it`s nice to be part of that group.
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.
