Johnny Nakamoto:
CLASS OF 1977
Roosevelt High SchoolClass of 1977
Los angeles, CA
Johnny's Story
Johnny is from Buena Park, California. Johnny is married. Johnny's schools include Roosevelt High School. Johnny later attended Cal Poly Pomona. Johnny works(ed) at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center.
Music Johnny likes includes Pink Martini, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, The Airborne Toxic Event. Movies Johnny likes include To Sir, with Love, Thunderbirds Are Go, Pillow Talk. TV shows Johnny likes include The West Wing, The Big Bang Theory, I Love Lucy.
One of Johnny's favorite quotes is:""The greatest obstacle to excellence... is being good."
Competitive desire; without steady, earnest, and energetic practice; is nothing but wishful thinking.
postscript… While you’re not practicing, someone else is.
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lie in a man's determination." Tommy Lasorda
"A real love for the hard battle, knowing it offers the opportunity to be at your best when your best is required. The great competitors all share a joy derived from the struggle itself - the journey, the contest. They have done so because only in that supreme effort is there an opportunity to summon your best, a personal greatness that cannot be diminished, dismissed, or derided b...Expand for more
ecause of a final score or bottom line." John Wooden
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." Steve Prefontaine
"Reputation is what others perceive of you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most." John Wooden
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
"If everything seems under control... you're not going fast enough." Mario Andretti
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