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

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

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.

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.

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

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

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.