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

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….

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, ….

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

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

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

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

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….

People striving for approval from others become phony..

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

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..

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

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….

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 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..

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….

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 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….

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….