I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

If I refuse to be defeated by hardship, if only I stand firm, the world holds no terror for me.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

-- Pelé

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

-- George Orwell

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

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

-- Gabriel García Márquez

I just want to play baseball.

-- Eiji Sawamura