Ichiro Suzuki Quotes

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

When the chance came to join a great club like Liverpool, I weighed up my options and it was obviously the best move for me.

I did not choose acting as a career.

Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.

It was a life decision, deciding which path to take in my career. I needed time to get together with my family and closest friends.

There wasn't any one particular moment where I realised, you know what, I'm going to be a musician. The decision more came from a lack of options.

It's a really good feeling in moving up the rankings so quickly because it's so reassuring that I made the right decision in turning pro.

I have no regrets about taking the United job. When you get offered a job like that, you take it.

I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I learnt to be courageous in my career decision through my association with Dev sahab.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.

No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.