Mark Teixeira Quotes

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

Mark Teixeira

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Law
  • Sports
  • Betting

• I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Hope
  • Passion
  • Sports

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Memories

• I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Dad
  • Air
  • Feet

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Team

• I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• I always consult my father before I take on a project. Not just me - even my brother goes to Dad and speaks to him of his business ideas. Dad has an amazing business acumen, and it would be foolish not to take his advice. Plus, he's our dad at the end of the day, and he would want to see us succeed. He always gives us the best advice.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Business
  • Father
  • Dad

• There's so many opportunities, economically and socially, and just the location advantage and all the great institutions that are here, that this community is definitely poised for a huge revival. And so, when I think about Compton, I think about redemption.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Great
  • Community

• I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

  

  Joan Van Ark
  • Up
  • Star

• My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • She
  • Together
  • Mother

• My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

  

  Mark Teixeira
  • Dad
  • Sports
  • Memories