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

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.

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 rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

Hope turns the wheels of tomorrow's good fortune." From the Ace of Cups in Tarot D'Amour

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.