Ichiro Suzuki
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.Collection: Success
There's not much difference between love and hate.
Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me.
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'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique.
There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.
Seattle has always been home.
I want to keep playing until I am at least 50.
When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.
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.
I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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.
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.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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.
You should seek approval from yourself.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
People striving for approval from others become phony.
Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
We have to connect to our fans through the media, and when you talk about that, it's got to come from your heart. And when it comes from your heart, it has to be absolutely consistent. There's a big risk you take without an interpreter because, as professional baseball players, we are here to perform baseball, not to learn a language.
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.
For me, I pride myself on every aspect of the game.
It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.
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 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 was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.
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.
My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.
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.
I collect autographed major-league baseballs.
Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.
I love how the Mariners function as a team. That feeling is important to me.
I like things that other people don't have. I like to be different from others.
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.Collection: Strength
I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.Collection: Past
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.Collection: Lying
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Book
I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.Collection: Dream
I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.Collection: Player
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.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Numbers
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.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Morning