Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki, often referred to mononymously as Ichiro, is a Japanese professional baseball right fielder for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball. He has spent the bulk of his career with two teams: the Orix Blue Wave of Nippon Professional Baseballin Japan, where he began his professional career, and the Seattle Mariners of MLB in the United States. After playing for the Mariners, he played two and a half seasons in MLB with the New York Yankees. Ichiro has...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth22 October 1973
CountryJapan
Ninety losses is not going to affect how I feel. What's important is what direction the team is going, ... If we know what direction we're going, that's the thing that will make this team good.
I sense that MLB is hurting a little bit.
I've never been officially named captain by the manager. But if you look at my experience in baseball, I'm definitely the veteran on the team.
I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.
To be honest, I never imagined we'd get there. We had a great team, the best. I hope we showed everyone what a great sport baseball is.
This is probably the biggest moment of my baseball career. This event has decided the true world champions and we have won. I'm unbelievably happy. It's amazing.
This is probably the biggest moment of my baseball career.
I wasn't surprised ... there's many situations where the runner on first runs in those situations.
I would like to see the success of this event lead to baseball being back at the Olympics, but I can't see myself participating in any effort to bring baseball back to the Olympics.
We couldn't disregard what our manager was saying. We weren't persuaded by the outcome. That's why we didn't.
We couldn't disregard what our manager was saying.
I'll walk on my hands before I use crutches.
I like the glove to be a little loose,
In a tournament like this one, it's important to be the team that scores first.