This was not perfect so far. But I believe a lot of people in the whole world paid attention to baseball.

With the World Baseball Classic, this year is a bit different. Our goal will be to win the tournament and after that I'll start thinking about the regular season.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.