Yankees pitching legend Andy Pettitte opens up about choosing faith over worldly success

He has 5 World Series rings, fame and trophies – but for Yankees legend Andy Pettitte, religion comes first.

From the mound to the chapel, Pettitte turned to Christ to get done pugnacious times and face immoderate "big league" challenges.

Now, with his woman Laura astatine his side, he's sharing his religion travel with Fox Nation subscribers.

"One of the verses that I ever retrieve and thought astir is, ‘What does it nett a antheral if helium gains the full satellite but loses his soul?’" the pitching fable said connected the latest occurrence of "Ainsley's Bible Study." 

"It's not astir each the trophies and each the wealth and each of [the] fame. It's much astir people's souls."

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Andy Pettitte of the New York Yankees pitches during batting signifier anterior to the crippled betwixt the New York Mets and the New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium connected Friday, May 16, 2025 successful New York, New York. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos)

After Pettitte recovered Christ astatine 11 years old, his religion continued to turn each year. 

He aboriginal met Laura astatine a Baptist religion conscionable extracurricular of Houston wherever her begetter was a preacher, and the mates were joined astatine a young age.

"I conscionable felt similar I had a fantastic instauration with my religion to benignant of transportation maine done each the trials and tribulations and each the large times that a shot vocation tin bring," helium said connected Monday's "Fox & Friends." 

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Andy Pettitte (back center) and his woman Laura (right) shared their religion journeys connected Fox Nation's "Ainsley's Bible Study." (Fox & Friends/Screengrab)

Laura stayed by his broadside arsenic helium roseate to fame successful the large leagues, leaning heavy connected her ain religion – which she had harbored since aboriginal puerility – to get her done the tribulations that travel with being an athlete's wife.

"Through those times, with women pushing maine retired of the way, wanting to instrumentality their representation with him and antithetic things… relying connected the Lord and going to the Word, to my Bible, and supplication truly done each of that clip was [what got maine done it]," she shared.

Even arsenic a rookie, Pettitte led Bible studies among his teammates — thing helium described arsenic "tough" successful the midst of disagreements from those astir him.

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New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte (Reuters)

"You person to get to the point, obviously, wherever you don't attraction what anyone thinks of you. You're going to unrecorded your life, you cognize what you judge and the foundations that you benignant of privation to unrecorded and the principles you privation to unrecorded your beingness on. Everyone's not going to ever hold with you, but decidedly arsenic a younger player, it was tough," helium said.

"It was pugnacious erstwhile you had to locomotion astir the shot locker country and say, ‘Hey, we got chapel successful 5 minutes,’ and a batch of guys didn't privation to perceive that, but again, God's conscionable ever been precise faithful, and I conscionable had a batch of assurance successful what helium was going to bash and however helium was going to assistance me."

"It's been fantastic during the people of my vocation to spot people, spot different teammates judge Jesus, and God is conscionable good. That's each I tin say."