Top 57 Quotes & Sayings by Ichiro Suzuki

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Ichiro Suzuki , also known mononymously as Ichiro , is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played professionally for 28 seasons. He played nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), where he began his career, and 14 with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). After playing the first 12 years of his MLB career for the Mariners, Suzuki played two and a half seasons with the New York Yankees and three with the Miami Marlins. He played his final two seasons with the Mariners.

Japanese - Athlete | Born: October 22, 1973

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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.

Ichiro Suzuki

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

Ichiro Suzuki

Nobody knows what the future holds.

Ichiro Suzuki

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.

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My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

Ichiro Suzuki

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.

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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

Ichiro Suzuki

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.

Ichiro Suzuki

I love how the Mariners function as a team. That feeling is important to me.

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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.

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I collect autographed major-league baseballs.

Ichiro Suzuki

Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.

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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.

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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.

Ichiro Suzuki

I want to keep playing until I am at least 50.

Ichiro Suzuki

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.

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If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

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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

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

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I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique.

Ichiro Suzuki

There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.

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It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

Ichiro Suzuki

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.

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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Ichiro Suzuki

For me, I pride myself on every aspect of the game.

Ichiro Suzuki

People striving for approval from others become phony.

Ichiro Suzuki

You should seek approval from yourself.

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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

There's not much difference between love and hate.

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Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me.

Ichiro Suzuki

When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest.

Ichiro Suzuki

I like things that other people don't have. I like to be different from others.

Ichiro Suzuki

Seattle has always been home.

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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

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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.

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I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

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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.

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I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.

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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.

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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.

Ichiro Suzuki

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

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

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

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

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Ichiro Suzuki

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

Ichiro Suzuki

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

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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.

Ichiro Suzuki

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.

Ichiro Suzuki

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.

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When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.

Ichiro Suzuki

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

Ichiro Suzuki

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

I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him.

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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.

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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.

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Top 57 Quotes & Sayings by Ichiro Suzuki

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