“No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.” MenLongHomeBodyHandsRunningFeltFieldsDemandBallsOne ManDiamondArcsHome RunComplicationPlaying Fields Author:Sadaharu Oh
“Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.” HardBodyPurposeCourageFireCuttingChangedCapableBrilliantUselessDiamondPolish Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think