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
Physically I'm fine. All I have to do is get my timing back, those kinds of things. Physically it's no problem at all.
I think we have to rethink, because now we are on the big stage, and the Americans are a big-stage team. In the Asian round, we felt we had to worry about not only winning, but playing good for the (home) fans. Here, we have one purpose only.
That was embarrassing. If I'm satisfied with the way I played today, I might as well quit.
I was able to hit a home run in my first at-bat and I was glad to do it. I didn't have that in mind but I knew we should score first and maintain the lead.
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).
I feel really proud that I'm the only one of two Major League Baseball players to play in the final game. Of course, I sense that MLB is hurting a little bit.
I feel really proud I'm one of only two to be playing in the final. I sense Major League Baseball is hurting a little bit.
If I was satisfied with the situation right now, I would quit baseball.
If I was satisfied with my performance, I should quit baseball.
For me, rather than keeping something inside, it's better to get things out in the open. Now that things are out in the open, I feel really good right now, ready for the next season.
If we were in the Kingdome or something, maybe that would be special.
This was not perfect so far. But I believe a lot of people in the whole world paid attention to baseball.
I actually welcome boos as part of the game. I really love to see that from my opponent's fans. Last night, I think that those fans didn't boo hard enough.