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.

-- Ichiyō 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 García Márquez

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

-- Jim Thorpe

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

-- Jesse Owens

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