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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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People striving for approval from others become phony.

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You should seek approval from yourself.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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 Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

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