Top 65 Quotes About Ichiro
#1. Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?
John Thorn
#2. He gave a halfhearted hope Ichiro could walk on his own steam, but a few fumbling tries to get him up onto his feet only showed Bobby how Ichi's legs could double as overcooked noodles.
Rhys Ford
#3. 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
#5. I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.
Ichiro Suzuki
#7. [ ... ] we can't make a decision between being sad for a little while and being wretched for the rest of our lives. Or rather we've made the decision and have trouble finding the courage to carry it through.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#8. The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#9. Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#10. Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children - some day they grow up.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#11. 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
#12. It is hard for one who has not had a similar experience to imagine the terror that still gripped Taeko and Mrs. Tamaki and Hiroshi, so intense a terror that afterwards it seemed almost funny.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#14. There are those who hold that to quibble over matters of taste in the basic necessities of life is an extravagance
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#15. But does a decent man make promises just to please a woman? Isn't it more honest to refuse to?"
"I don't like that sort of honesty. It's not honesty, it's lack of steadiness.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#16. 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
#17. When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
Ichiro Suzuki
#18. 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
#19. When you've got the upper hand, don't lose it by giving a lecture.
Ichiro Sakaki
#20. 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
#22. If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#23. 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
#24. Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#25. I wanted to boast to everyone,"This woman is mine. Take a look at my treasure.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#26. The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.
Ichiro Ozawa
#28. We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.
Ichiro Suzuki
#32. For someone who writes as slowly as I do, each installment is a full day's work. Newspaper novels are painful ... Whether I like what I'm writing or not, whether I'm feeling inspired or not, I have to write an installment every day.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#34. I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded.
Ichiro Ozawa
#36. People striving for approval from others become phony.
Ichiro Suzuki
#38. There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#39. The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#40. If indeed "elegance is frigid," it can as well be described as filthy. There is no denying, at any rate, that among the elements of the elegance in which we take such delight is a measure of the unclean, the unsanitary.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#41. We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#42. I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.
Ichiro Suzuki
#43. August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
Ichiro Suzuki
#44. 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
#45. For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#46. I know few greater pleasures than holding a lacquer soup bowl in my hands, feeling upon my palms the weight of the liquid and its mild warmth. The sensation is something like that of holding a plump newborn baby.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#53. 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.
Ichiro Suzuki
#54. We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#55. It's odd, but even when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Perhaps especially when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Or should I say that I am more attracted, more fascinated by women who cause me pain?
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#56. I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
Ichiro Suzuki
#57. 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.
Ichiro Suzuki
#58. 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
#60. Her eyes, nose, hands, feet ... Each part was a supreme delicacy, and I was insatiable.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#61. If I've changed, I've changed."
"Have you really changed, or are you only making a show?"
"Making a show?"
"Yes."
" ... I don't really know.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#62. Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
Ichiro Suzuki
#63. I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
Ichiro Suzuki
#64. But when Kaname asked: "Would you like to separate, then?" Misako answered: "Would you?" They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face with his own weakness.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#65. The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
Ichiro Suzuki
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