Masahiro Quotes

#1. I'm not depressed and I continue to remain healthy and positive, but developing 'Smash Bros.' is beyond hard,

Masahiro Sakurai

#2. I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.

Masahiro Tanaka

#3. In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed.

Masahiro Sakurai

#4. I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

Masahiro Tanaka

#5. I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

Masahiro Tanaka

#6. Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do.

Masahiro Tanaka

#7. For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

Masahiro Tanaka

#8. I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

Masahiro Tanaka

#9. When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. But once you hit twenty, you're just a normal person.

Masahiro Yokotani

#10. Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

Masahiro Sakurai

#11. I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

Masahiro Tanaka

#12. In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,

Masahiro Sakurai

#13. Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don't stick to that thought, then we'd have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.

Masahiro Sakurai

#14. Beauty really was skin-deep. Wesley Rush may have had the body of a Greek god, but his soul was as black and empty as the inside of my closet. What a bastard!

Kody Keplinger

#15. I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Masahiro Tanaka

#16. Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Ingenieros

#17. I have such a big mouth.

Kelly Hu

#18. A man knows he's in love when he's totally happy just watching his girlfriend do even the simplest things - peeling an apple, combing her hair, fluffing up a bed pillow, laughing.

James Patterson

#19. It's fun making new skills for new characters.

Masahiro Sakurai

#20. TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#21. What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.

Masahiro Sakurai

#22. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Brian Perkins

#23. So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.

Masahiro Sakurai

#24. I'm a big singer. I really love it.

Mark Boone Junior

#25. I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

Masahiro Tanaka

#26. The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

Masahiro Sakurai

#27. t is your own barrier, you set it, and only you can remove it. Remember that. So, do you want to try again or permanently give up?

Nabil N. Jamal

#28. Using a mouse, keyboard or gamepad make my arm tired, so I can't use them in a continual manner. The only device I can use for an extended period of time is a joystick. It's posing problems when I'm test-playing something in progress.

Masahiro Sakurai

#29. You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them.

Masahiro Sakurai

#30. I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

Masahiro Tanaka

#31. The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians.

Gary DeMar