Sadaharu Oh Quotes

It's all stealing bases and winning games. If not, go home.

Now it's up to me to prove that I can play for Barcelona and help the team to stay at the top.

I've dealt with expectations my whole life and have been blessed to be able to play at a high level, whether it's football or baseball.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

All I want to do is get on the pitch and perform, and hopefully, that will do the talking.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.

I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.

You only have such a short time to play baseball in your career. Whether you play for five years or 15 years, it's a short time in your life, and I think everybody wants to win.

When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

October, that's when they pay off for playing ball.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.

I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.