Ichiro Suzuki on "Studio 42 with Bob Costas" This Monday at 8 p.m. ET

Ten-time MLB All-Star and 2001 AL MVP and Rookie of the Year Ichiro Suzuki will be featured in a new episode of Studio 42 with Bob Costas this Monday, November 10 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

During the interview, Suzuki discusses his renowned career as well as his current free agency and the possibility of playing in the Major Leagues next year, about which he says, "I can tell you unequivocally that even though I'm 41-years old, I will be playing somewhere next year. That I can say with complete conviction."

Taped last Thursday in MLB Network's Studio 42, Suzuki also comments on playing in Derek Jeter's final game at Yankee Stadium, his thoughts watching the 2014 World Series, approaching 3,000 career Major League hits, and the effort he makes to care for his equipment. Suzuki is accompanied by Brad Lefton, a bilingual journalist, who has covered Suzuki for his entire Major League career.  

This episode of Studio 42 with Bob Costas will immediately follow MLB Network's exclusive coverage of the announcement of the 2014 AL & NL Rookie of the Year award winners by the BBWAA. It will then re-air later that night at 10:30 p.m. ET.

Highlights from Suzuki's conversation with Costas include:

On playing next year:

I have every intention of playing in the Major Leagues next year. Where will that be? I cannot tell you because baseball is not an individual sport and so it's not just up to my feeling that I want to play. Somebody has to feel that they want to give me the opportunity to play. But I have every intention of playing.

On playing in Derek Jeter's final game at Yankee Stadium:

One thing that I will never forget about Jeter that will be with me for the rest of my life is the scene of his last game at Yankee Stadium. To see him take the field in the first inning, go to his position - and I was in right field - it was just such an emotional game, such an emotional moment, and I felt, in right field, watching him, experiencing it, I felt like it was going to bring me to tears. And I knew that it had to be so emotional for him, but you never felt that. I never saw the tears, I never sensed that it was as emotional as it was for him as I knew it had to be. And I just wondered, 'How does he have the ability to control his emotions to that degree? How does he have the ability to not show that side of him to all of these people?' That's something that will be with me for the rest of my life.

On approaching 3,000 career Major League hits and breaking Pete Rose's all-time career hits record:

Those are motivators because they are easy to understand goals. …With that said, it's not the case that … I'm motivated to continue playing because I want those. They just happen to be two goals that are right in front of me so they are there for the taking, so of course I want them. But that's not the reason that I want to continue to play. I want to continue to play because I think that I can still continue to play my game.

On watching Madison Bumgarner in the World Series:

I watched as much of the World Series as I could and the feeling that I just described about Jeter, to watch on television this pitcher for the Giants, Madison Bumgarner was very similar. I couldn't believe to watch this guy's composure on the mound. What I was so impressed by watching him pitch was not the pitches that he was throwing and his great athleticism, it was his composure on the mound. I heard that this guy is only 25-years old, so at 25-years old to have that kind of composure to not show your emotions - it's the World Series! And the only time that you really saw any semblance of emotion was at the moment of victory.

On why he takes care of his playing equipment:

[I] don't think I'm the only one who does that, but, from my perspective, [if] you're going to lift weights like you do, if you're going to go out and take [batting practice] like you do, if you're going to go out and stretch and throw the ball before the game, all of these things are designed to prepare you for the game. … If you went through all that effort to prepare for the game by doing those things, why would you then throw your bat?

On his conversations at first base:

I think I'm fooling everybody. Even the guys that are talking to me, they think I understand them and I don't know how much I understand them. It's not like we're having a … deep conversation. … All you got to do is just kind of smile and say something funny or light and that's all that situation calls for.