俺の球を打てるもんなら打ってみろ

I will throw a ball faster than the wind.

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyo Higuchi

Have you never touched this soft skin, flushed with hot blood? How lonely you must be, preaching the Way.

-- Akiko Yosano

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I played because I loved the sport, not for money.

-- Born in Oklahoma Territory in 1887, Jim Thorpe

I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power.

-- Born in Alabama in 1913

Football is not about the legs. It's about the head and heart.

-- Born in Budapest in 1927, Ferenc Puskas