A Quote by Mark Teixeira

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Mark Teixeira

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Mark Teixeira
American - Athlete
Born: April 11, 1980

Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

Bobby Knight

In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Earl Wilson

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

Ken Griffey Jr.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

Alex Rodriguez

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

George Carlin

That's why you have to keep your mind open - so that you can be given the privilege to have five weeks in Japan and take all of that in. I mean, that's privilege to be able to do that. And you have to give that privilege back - it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the madding crowd.

Polly Allen Mellen

There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.

Frank Deford

Baseball-wise, the Orioles specifically love that I haven't pitched as much as other guys coming into Major League Baseball.

Pat Connaughton

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

Scott Rolen

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

Ron Darling

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

Damon Lindelof

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

Giancarlo Stanton

There's not much you can complain about - you're a Major League Baseball player; you're getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren't any significant ones.

Giancarlo Stanton

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.