People striving for approval from others become phony.

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.

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.

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.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Keep dreaming.If you stop dreaming, you stop living.

Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.