People striving for approval from others become phony..

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

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, ….

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….

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

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

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

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 ti….

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

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 Ma….

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'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..

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 impres….

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 g….

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 s….

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….

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

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 base….

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

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 decis….