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
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've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.
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.
Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.
I felt the spirit and smartness of the Japanese players while playing with this team. It was a great team and I wish I could play major league games with this team for one season.
It's a good chance for everyone interested in soba to exchange opinions. Walking around and tasting is the main part.
The more you put your opinion out there, you are open to more vulnerability. Of course, I want to change the team. But working by myself is difficult ... it has to be a team effort.
It was either going to be an extremely boring day or then again maybe not. I went all out for the homer, really 120 percent.
I want to be the kind of player, ... where the fans can look to me and think it's just another day, another performance.
They are very confident. They are united as a team. They have a better chance to bring out the best in themselves.
You want to know the color of my underwear, too? ... You guys are starting to ask questions like the Japanese writers used to.
The longer I played, the more important it became to me. I think those who followed me could see this best. The fans want me to get hits, and since I've been able to in the past, 200 hits became a kind of benchmark indicating I've done well. One hundred eighty wouldn't cut it. For the fans it's got to be 200.