When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

Morimoto recalls childhood ambitions shaped by local culture and identity: Hiroshima’s beloved baseball team (the Carp) and the craft tradition of sushi. The quote juxtaposes two archetypal dreams—sports stardom and culinary mastery—suggesting that his eventual path as a chef was not a late accident but an early, parallel aspiration. Mentioning “my own restaurant” highlights entrepreneurship and authorship: not merely cooking, but creating a place and style of his own. The casual, spoken phrasing also reads as an origin-story moment, framing later fame as rooted in ordinary, youthful desires.