This is a trial translation of Suzuki, Ichiro’s speech at 21st Ichiro Cup baseball tournament for kids which was held on Dec. 23rd, 2016.
Hello everybody!
I’m Ichiro of Miami Marlins.
Congratulations to you all of 3 teams here!
It’s so great to stay here as the best 3 out of 199 teams.
My team was 3rd position out of 5 teams in this year.
I searched a bit for the words I can tell you now.
In this year I could accomplish 3000th hits in Major League.
People praised me a lot with the result.
Many say that Ichiro works twice or triple harder than ordinal player.
But it is not true.
It’s not possible to do twice or triple harder than others.
You know that because you practice a lot, don’t you?
I would rather say, expand your limitation.
When it comes to you then try to go beyond it a bit.
I wish you to have such experiences.
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