Ichiro Suzuki
FameRank: 4

"NPB"

* 7× Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Game/NPB All-Star (1994–2000)

* 3× Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award/PL MVP (1994–1996)

* 7× Mitsui Golden Glove Award/Golden Glove Award (1994–2000)

* 7× Best Nine Award (1994–2000)

* 3× Matsutaro Shoriki Award (1994–1995, 2004)

* 3× Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize (1994–1995, 2001)

* 7× PL Batting Champion (1994–2000)

* 5× PL Safe Hit Champion (1994–1998)

* 5× PL On-base Champion (1994–1996, 1999–2000)

* 1995 PL Stolen Base Champion

* 1995 PL RBI Champion

* Japan Series Champion (1996)

"MLB"

* 10× MLBASG/MLB All-Star (2001 MLB All-Star Game/2001–2010 MLB All-Star Game/2010)

* MLB All-Star Game MVP (2007 MLB All-Star Game/2007)

* 2× List of Major League Baseball batting champions/AL Batting Champion (2001, 2004)

* List of Major League Baseball stolen base champions/AL Stolen Base Champion (2001)

* Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award (2005)

* AL MVP (2001)

* AL Rookie of the Year (2001)

* 3× Silver Slugger Award (2001, 2007, 2009)

* 10× Rawlings Gold Glove Award (2001–2010)

"Ichiro Suzuki#American League records/MLB Records"

* List of Major League Baseball hit records/262 hits, single season

If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous athletes! More Ichiro Suzuki on Wikipedia.

I won't know until I wake up (today).

255

It's not an ideal thing for a player to think, but I really didn't care if I would get injured in this game. That's how much I really wanted to win this one. That's how we were driven to this championship.

254

You want to know the color of my underwear, too? ... You guys are starting to ask questions like the Japanese writers used to.

194

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.

190

I don't know what to compare that to. It's for sure each team has something in mind about the other. It's an honor and a pleasure to play a game against them.

168

I'm going to throw a party tonight.

162

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

161

I'll walk on my hands before I use crutches.

151

It was either going to be an extremely boring day or then again maybe not. I went all out for the homer, really 120 percent.

67