I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

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.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

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.

I have done so many things in my life, " she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.

You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.