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 ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

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

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.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

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

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

People striving for approval from others become phony.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

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

No one is better at not beating America than England.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.

He is about as well-put-together and focused as a zombie at a tractor pull.

Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.

My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.