Sadaharu Oh Professions : Baseball player Born : May 20, 1940 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Sadaharu Oh The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts. Sadaharu Oh not-ready ready effort 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 home running men At the heart of all things is love. Sadaharu Oh secret-love all-things heart My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love. Sadaharu Oh careers baseball heart 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 waiting feet believe 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 strong home running 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 skills half sports 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 baseball games reality Similar Authors Albert Belle baseball-player Bob Horner baseball-player Bob Wickman baseball-player Brian Gordon baseball-player Bronson Arroyo baseball-player Buster Posey baseball-player All Authors
