Masahiro Tanaka Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ...

Bill Gates

#3. 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

#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. These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Masahiro Tanaka

#7. Indeed! I am truly glad to hear it. I always always fond of Osborne; and, do you know, I never really took to Roger; I respected him and all that, of course. But to compare him with Mr. Henderson! Mr. Henderson is so handsome and well-bred, and gets all his gloves from Houbigant!

Elizabeth Gaskell

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

Masahiro Tanaka

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

Masahiro Tanaka

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

Masahiro Tanaka

#11. The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin
the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.

Aurora Aksnes

#13. You know you're a clumsy person when you cause other people to fall down.

Cambria Hebert

#14. A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

Stephen King

#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. An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Taylor Caldwell

#17. Speak the truth and do it as much as you can, and the liar will be forced to adapt the lie until he can't anymore.

Robin Sacredfire

#18. I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.

Eric Hutchinson

#19. If it all ends now, I have lived, I have learned, and I have been loved. The greatest lesson is the gift of life, and no matter what, tomorrow is always another day.

Dave Pelzer

#20. 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

#21. Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.

Walt Whitman

#22. 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