Hideki Matsui Quotes


Hideki Matsui

When I first started out professionally in Japan, I had a number in mind, maybe 500, 600 or 700, ... but not anymore.

I don`t have any special feelings (about 500) but I am pleased to have been able to build toward that.

It was pretty huge, ... As a result, Jason hit the home run and we were able to win the game.

Perhaps my father will be pretty happy if I give it to him,

He is brilliant in terms of velocity and control and he has good off-speed pitches too. Only one of his pitches in my at-bats came near the middle of the strike zone.

(Conversation of the day: Yogi Berra with Hideki Matsui - without a translator.) It was in Japanese, always Japanese, ... Yogi just likes to joke around with me.

It didn`t seem like they were looking for the ball. That`s when I heard my teammates yelling.

Luis got a little too aggressive.

The feeling itself, it is the same. I don`t really add the statistics that I had in Japan and the home runs here.

The third one was high in the strike zone. I have my strategy against left-handers.






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