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Top 20 Ichiro Suzuki Quotes (2025 Update)

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.”

1. “I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “If I ever saw myself saying I’m excited going to Cleveland, I’d punch myself in the face, because I’m lying.”

2. “If I ever saw myself saying I’m excited going to Cleveland, I’d punch myself in the face, because I’m lying.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “I’ve always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That’s been my career motto.”

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That’s the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.”

4. “The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That’s the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “I’ve made far too many mistakes. That’s the way I feel.”

5. “I’ve made far too many mistakes. That’s the way I feel.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.”

6. “I wanted the challenge of competing against the best players in the world.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “You should seek approval from yourself.”

7. “You should seek approval from yourself.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.”

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “If I’m in a slump, I ask myself for advice.”

12. “If I’m in a slump, I ask myself for advice.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “People striving for approval from others become phony.”

13. “People striving for approval from others become phony.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.”

16. “Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.”

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “When people get placed upon a pedestal – when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal – they become mannequin-like.”

21. “When people get placed upon a pedestal – when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal – they become mannequin-like.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Ichiro Suzuki

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