Is This Baseball or Iron Chef?

Offering what is to date the season's most awesome sound bite, Ichiro described his frame of mind before facing Red Sox uber-import Daisuke Matsuzaka:

I hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul. I plan to face him with the zeal of a challenger.

I'm pretty sure I heard Masayo Waki say the same thing before the classic Strawberry Dessert Battle. The only way Ichiro's comment can get any more awesome is if Chairman Kaga threw out the first pitch.