Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki, often referred to mononymously as Ichiro, is a Japanese professional baseball right fielder for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball. He has spent the bulk of his career with two teams: the Orix Blue Wave of Nippon Professional Baseballin Japan, where he began his professional career, and the Seattle Mariners of MLB in the United States. After playing for the Mariners, he played two and a half seasons in MLB with the New York Yankees. Ichiro has...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth22 October 1973
CountryJapan
I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.
I sense that MLB is hurting a little bit.
I've never been officially named captain by the manager. But if you look at my experience in baseball, I'm definitely the veteran on the team.
Because I love baseball. That is the No. 1 motivation. What I do is just come here to perform.
To be honest, I never imagined we'd get there. We had a great team, the best. I hope we showed everyone what a great sport baseball is.
That was embarrassing. If I'm satisfied with the way I played today, I might as well quit.
I wasn't surprised ... there's many situations where the runner on first runs in those situations.
I would like to see the success of this event lead to baseball being back at the Olympics, but I can't see myself participating in any effort to bring baseball back to the Olympics.
My comments seemed to stir up a lot of things but they are going be interpreted in many ways anyway and I'm fine with that. I felt the weight of shouldering the Japanese flag and this primarily brought out my emotions in this tournament.
I won't maintain that emotional level. I guess I'm lucky we have another week left in spring training, and that will give me an opportunity to recover.
I won't know until I wake up (today).
We couldn't disregard what our manager was saying. We weren't persuaded by the outcome. That's why we didn't.
We couldn't disregard what our manager was saying.
I thought it was a close play. I'll leave it up to the umpire to call.