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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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