Sadaharu Oh Quotes

#1. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.

Denis Johnson

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

V.S. Ramachandran

#6. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

Iain Duncan Smith

#8. Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

Benazir Bhutto

#9. The world won't end with a bang.
The world won't end with a whimper.
In fact, the world won't end at all.
But it will change and if we refuse to change with it ...
It will be us that ends.

Madeline Sheehan

#10. My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Sadaharu Oh

#11. Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - RICHARD P. FEYNMAN

James Gleick

#12. At the heart of all things is love.

Sadaharu Oh

#13. An Odonian's goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. 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

#15. Disbelief is the root of the impossible.

Christina Farley

#16. When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

Greg Gutfeld

#17. The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

Sadaharu Oh

#18. The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

Alan Parsons

#19. Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.

Winston S. Churchill

#20. Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

Edgar Allan Poe