Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Sadaharu Oh

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese athlete Sadaharu Oh.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Sadaharu Oh, also known as Wang Chen-chih, is a Japanese-born former baseball player and manager in Japan. Oh holds the world lifetime home run record, having hit 868 home runs during his professional career. He established many NPB batting records, including runs batted in (RBIs) (2,170), slugging percentage (.634), bases on balls (2,390), and on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) (1.080). In 1977, Oh became the first recipient of the People's Honour Award. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.

Japanese - Athlete | Born: May 20, 1940

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The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sadaharu Oh

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Sadaharu Oh

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

Sadaharu Oh

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

Sadaharu Oh

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Sadaharu Oh

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.

Sadaharu Oh

Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.

Sadaharu Oh

At the heart of all things is love.

Sadaharu Oh

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sadaharu Oh

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Sadaharu Oh

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