I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.

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.

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

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.

Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

The power of love is real whether you can see it or not.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.