This first World Baseball Classic is a great success and it showed a lot of positives to the baseball world, but I don't really know how the Olympic committee would perceive this success. |
This is the first time to meet Mr. Aaron in about 10 years. It's like a dream now that Japanese baseball is sending players to play in the major leagues, and I would like to express my appreciation to the United States (for its support). |
This was for all of the fans back home in Japan. |
To be honest, I haven't felt this thrilled in a long time. |
Tomorrow if we can win, we'll be happy. What happened (on Sunday), happened. It's in the past now and it's time to move on. |
Wada didn't really have a lot of control tonight. But that doesn't change my overall trust in him. |
We believe that Japan is the strongest in Asia and we are confident that we'll go to the United States for the second round as winner of our group. |
We didn't score when we had chances to which hurt. We will want to take revenge next time. |
We fought each game as best as we could, and as a result we've been able to bring you good news. |
We gave everything we had. All the games were hard-fought games. It was also showing that our lineup had trouble scoring runs against real tough pitching. |
We gave everything we had. We learned that our opponents' desire was higher than ours. |
We had some withdrawals along the way, but were able to form a good team finally. It's a great chance to let other nations know our baseball is world class. |
We have a saying in Japan - third time comes truth. |
We have a saying in Japanese that 'the third time will reveal the truth' and since we've lost twice to South Korea and both were games that we lost by one run and gave up two runs in the eighth inning, we would love the opportunity to meet them again and win. |
We have to win all three games. So I will make sure they stay focused on (Sunday's) game. |