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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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[In his autobiography] Sadaharu Oh, a Zen Way of Baseball, ... acquire the body of a rock.
SADAHARU OH The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
LUISE RAINER How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all...
OSCAR WILDE People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Secret of long life;Never plan to abandon life giving activities while alive.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The secret of long life is by learning the art of meditation,it aids the renewal of the human flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Secret of long life;Desire to compete with tomorrow,by always endeavoring to witness tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The secret to accomplishing great things at work is to love what you do. Keep taking the steps that ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching...
DEAN INGE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Love in your heart is good medicine for long live. Hatred in your blood is the major cause of heart ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I wanted to cry. (Sadaharu) Oh and his players did such a good job and to lose like that is devastat...
SENICHI HOSHIN After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, h...
LILLY SINGH Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand ...
ROGER FEDERER I want to have a long career.
HALEY BENNETT This was the most humiliating day of my baseball career.
ICHIRO SUZUKI For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light...
JENNIFER DELUCY Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to ...
JESS C. SCOTT Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
OSCAR WILDE I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau...
WALT MOSSBERG I was a bit scratchy at first especially with the kickoff and I thought it was going to be a hell of...
DAN CARTER It was as uneventful of a launch sequence as you can imagine. There was not a single anomaly worked ...
JIM SLAVIN In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfuln...
DONALD G. MITCHELL Oh my love! Your eyes are the mirror of my heart.
DEBASISH MRIDHA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I had in mind a long career.
EVE ARNOLD I've been blessed to have a long career.
CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.
DARRELL ISSA He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son.
JOANNA BAILLIE The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
DOLLY PARTON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.
WILL BLY The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go.
MICHELLE SHOCKED I've had a long career in the NBA and have enjoyed my experience.
JAMAL MASHBURN This is probably the biggest moment of my baseball career.
ICHIRO SUZUKI You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
BETTE DAVIS The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE No, not at all. Whoever replaces Joe Torre has got their hands filled. He's probably been as good a ...
LARRY BOWA My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but ...
SADAHARU OH I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality i...
SADAHARU OH The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them eff...
SADAHARU OH The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half...
SADAHARU OH The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half...
SADAHARU OH The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other hal...
SADAHARU OH Personally, I think Japan is the strongest team in Asia and we want to finish Pool A as the top team...
SADAHARU OH I am proud that Japan is the strongest team in Asia. We are determined to go through at the top.
SADAHARU OH Before speaking about whether to turn it down or not, I don't think I've got an official offer.
SADAHARU OH I was really surprised the American team lost to the Mexican team.
SADAHARU OH I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our te...
SADAHARU OH I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a so...
LEAH LABELLE To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a tabl...
MA LONG Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me onc...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not t...
CHRIS CORNELL I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple...
GIANCARLO STANTON Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our so...
ANGELICA HOPES At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a s...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interd...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I'm aware of the priceless privilege of having been born into the theater. Although it was a career ...
JOAN BENNETT This long ride is the blood my heart bleeds...
JESS "CHIEF" BRYNJULSON Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do wa...
ALAN MOORE When I was looking for the key to open the deepest chamber of your heart, I found that secret key of...
DEBASISH MRIDHA It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary....
BILLY GRAHAM When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
NICK HORNBY To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my s...
WILL ADVISE She calls me almost every single day and asks how practice was. She leaves me long messages before a...
HANNAH NOEL I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER I know that when I signed with Suzuki, I didn't know it was going to be as good as it was. I was con...
RICKY CARMICHAEL That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into l...
DAVID CAMPBELL I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the b...
LAURA DONNELLY Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret...but it's Miss Lavendar's, ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY A career is a job that has gone on too long.
JEFF MACNELLYIN If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
MIKE MYERS Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of ...
RACHEL HAWKINS Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Ultimately, we want it to turn into a long-term deal. That was expressed from both sides. He wants t...
ARN TELLEM Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding sc...
MIKE VEECK I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
ZACH JOHNSON Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
NOLAN RYAN All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborte...
CILLIAN MURPHY It is our opinion the mechanism of death is due to a rapid deterioration in a diseased heart. At thi...
JAMES YOUNG I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a ye...
DANIELA RUAH Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Foo...
DICK BUTKUS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek ...
BIBLE It doesn't feel like a long time to me. My life is full. I have new priorities. I've been working a ...
JODIE FOSTER The 1920s were essentially the time when I learned the business of performing. It was my initiation ...
JAMES CAGNEY

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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 ...
SADAHARU OH I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality i...
SADAHARU OH The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them eff...
SADAHARU OH The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half...
SADAHARU OH The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half...
SADAHARU OH The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other hal...
SADAHARU OH [In his autobiography] Sadaharu Oh, a Zen Way of Baseball, ... acquire the body of a rock.
SADAHARU OH Personally, I think Japan is the strongest team in Asia and we want to finish Pool A as the top team...
SADAHARU OH I am proud that Japan is the strongest team in Asia. We are determined to go through at the top.
SADAHARU OH Before speaking about whether to turn it down or not, I don't think I've got an official offer.
SADAHARU OH I was really surprised the American team lost to the Mexican team.
SADAHARU OH I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our te...
SADAHARU OH I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look...
SANDRA OH With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels s...
SANDRA OH But right now, the nationals and the Olympics are my goal. I try to go to as many competitions as po...
ANDREW OH I want to go to the Olympics, but I have other goals, too. Right now I'm an instructor, and now that...
ANDREW OH That is what I really want. It would mean so much to me, and to compete at that level would be amazi...
ANDREW OH I was born to do this. I started when I was 3 1/2, my father is my master, my brother is a master. I...
ANDREW OH My first goal is to make the adult national team, then the Olympics in the same year. That would be ...
ANDREW OH You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.
SANDRA OH In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p...
SANDRA OH I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, ...
SANDRA OH The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'O...
SANDRA OH I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You...
SANDRA OH I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in C...
SANDRA OH Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.
SANDRA OH People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up....
SANDRA OH A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're...
SANDRA OH We've known awhile that in many species, females prefer the most extravagant and flashy males. We've...
KEVIN OH For such elaborate traits to evolve, you have to have mating patterns where everyone wants the same ...
KEVIN OH It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.
MINYA OH For any normal person, that is the stupidest thing you could do. But you can't argue that his strate...
MINYA OH All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've...
SANDRA OH It has to do with me because it has to do with you," Young says, his voice dropping. "Jaewon-ah, we'...
AXIE OH If anything, the book shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the sad. They're chasing these gol...
MINYA OH Winners never cheat because cheaters never win and I'd rather be a loser than a quitter who never ha...
FL-DASH-OH Practice doesn't make perfect, nothing will ever really be perfect -
more practice more consist...
FL-DASH-OH