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Nobody knows what the future holds.
You should seek approval from yourself.
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.
I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.
I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.
There's not much difference between love and hate.
For me, I pride myself on every aspect of the game.
People striving for approval from others become phony.
I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me.
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.
I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.
Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.
I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique.
I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.
I love how the Mariners function as a team. That feeling is important to me.
Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.
I like things that other people don't have. I like to be different from others.
I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.
There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.
I like to read the news, but when I pull up a Japanese site, and an article comes up with my face, I never read it.
As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how fast it comes.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
For me, if I stay on the couch all day - or even one day - I'll be more tired doing that than going out and giving my body a workout.
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.
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.
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'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 believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.
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.
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.
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.
I think, mentally, you sometimes need a break. But for me, my body is built so that if I don't work out, that's when I put more stress on my body and get more tired.
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.
When I think about it, if somebody was to pass Pete Rose's record just playing in Japan, that would be a bigger accomplishment because of the few games they play over there.
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.
I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.
I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep.
When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English.
I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy.
When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.
In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.