Ichiro Suzuki Quotes
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see.
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.
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.
When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.
