Shohei Ohtani Quotes

The mindset behind Shohei Ohtani’s greatness.

Category: Challenge

A selection of quotes about embracing challenges, facing difficulty head-on, and choosing the harder path to reach higher potential.

It’s because I feel nervous that winning becomes fun.
Last year, I couldn’t compete with him. Fujinami produced results. I’m the one who has to challenge.
Even if I fail, it’s enough if the next kid comes along.
What I’ve come to realize is that it’s not difficult because I’m doing both. It’s that both are difficult.
My feelings never wavered about doing both. Even if trying both had turned out to be a failure, I believed it would still become something positive for me.
People say no one has ever done it before. But that’s exactly why I’m doing it — because no one has.
I’m excited to see how far I can go — not just as a player, but as a person. Right now, I just want to keep working hard and become the kind of player who can create a new path.
Being allowed to do both—pitch and hit—was a groundbreaking idea for me. It wasn’t something I had imagined. I think that made a huge difference.
When I first heard about the two-way idea, it wasn’t that I doubted it, but I did wonder if I might just end up becoming a hitter.
As a pitcher, I had too many unfinished things from high school. That’s why I wanted to see it through as a pitcher.
I’m going to a place where great players from every country gather. I don’t want to lose to them.
I wanted to challenge myself, but more than that, I was curious about how good I could become by taking a different development path from everyone else.