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Ichiro Suzuki

(1973) Professional Baseball Player

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Ichiro Suzuki is a professional baseball player, best known for Corrosion-Resist Coatings.

Quick Facts About Ichiro Suzuki

Born: October 22, 1973
Profession: Professional Baseball Player
Notable works: Corrosion-Resist Coatings

About Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki, also known mononymously as Ichiro , is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played for 28 seasons. He played the first nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the next 12 years with the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). Suzuki then played two and a half seasons with the New York Yankees and three with the Miami Marlins before returning to the Mariners for his final two seasons. He won two World Baseball Classic titles with the Japan national team. One of the greatest contact hitters, leadoff hitters, and defensive outfielders in baseball history, he is also considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Ichiro Suzuki · Page 2

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young…

Ball player

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

Dignity

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

Accomplishment

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

Cleveland

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When I think about it, if somebody was to pass Pete Rose's record just playing in Japan, that would be a bigger…

Accomplishment

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

Chasing

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I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in…

Able

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

Because

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

Advice

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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…

Decision

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

Every

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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.

Character

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

About

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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…

Guy

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Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require…

Appeals

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As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how…

Confidence

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

Baseball

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

Baseball

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

Am

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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…

Addresses

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

Japan

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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…

Anxious

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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…

Baseball

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

Best players

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

How

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