Sadaharu Oh Quotes

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'

After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

Our day will come

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose.

I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.

Success is overwhelming.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

I DID IT!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!