Sadaharu Oh quotes

“My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

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“Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

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“I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

Source : "Sadaharu Oh Still Feels and Thinks the Game". www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2008.

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“The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

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“The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

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“I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

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“No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

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“At the heart of all things is love.”
-- Sadaharu Oh

#Heart Quotes

“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”

“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002.

“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.”

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.”

“When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.”

“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

Source : Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

“Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com