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
Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.
I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.
Baseball has been the greatest things in my life, but the cameras and the media surrounding baseball have not been fun. It's unnecessary. How many times do they see me stretch? How many times do they see me walk? It is a big concern. If it affected the team in a negative way, I don't know what I would do.
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.
With the World Baseball Classic, this year is a bit different. Our goal will be to win the tournament and after that I'll start thinking about the regular season.
This was not perfect so far. But I believe a lot of people in the whole world paid attention to baseball.
Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
There are many issues. But a lot of players pay attention to this event. I'm sure you can improve aspects in the three years before the next event takes place.
There are a lot of people who get it wrong, ... The size of your body is not necessarily related to the power you can generate. I wish people would understand that.