Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.

April 23, 2013
"Without ambition one starts nothing.  Without work one finishes nothing."
野望がなければ、何もはじめられない。努力しなければ、何も完成できない。
Ralph E. Emerson
U.S. philosopher, poet, and essayist, 1803-1882
 The picture you see is our Little Saints soccer team won the Yokohama kids soccer championship in 1970's when I was a moderator of the team; and the coach standing in the picture was a very nice man.
We had a long history of a strong soccer team and Mr. Matsumoto, who was our P.E. teacher at that time was very well respected and he was my own teacher when I was in high school but he couldn't run the team because he was studying to be a bone doctor and busy at that time, so I volunteered to take care of the soccer team.  I, myself, was good at soccer in high school and received a certificate from school as an excellent soccer player though I was not in the school soccer team. It took several years to reach to be a strong team but I remember going to Mitsuzawa ground with the team and enjoyed their play.  It was an honor for the school and  we were expecting a stronger  varsity team coming up to high school to win the Kanto Plain's International/Base school  championship.
What was your favorite sport and what do you remember about it?
gto