Ichiro Suzuki famous quotes

03-28-2025

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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Running #Home #Flirting
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Book #Kids #Guy
People striving for approval from others become phony.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#People #Approval #Strive
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#People #Pedestal #Chasing
I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Mistake #Way #Made
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Advice #Slumps
You should seek approval from yourself.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Approval #Should
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Funny #Travel #Kings
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Success #Arbitrary #Definitions
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Baseball #Growing Up #Moving
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Lying #Cleveland #Faces
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Japan #Names #Use
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Thinking #Looks #Television
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Baseball #Loss #Different
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Baseball #Golf #Japan
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Sports #Strong #Character
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.
-- Ichiro Suzuki

#Baseball #Player #United States

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