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

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

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

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.

You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it's not unpatriotic to ask them, ... It's actually a higher form of patriotism.