If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

Great is the victory, but the friendship is all the greater.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- The Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack and commanded the Combined Fleet during the Pacific War's decisive early phase

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

-- Mark Twain

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

-- Born in Clarksville

銀メダルの悔しさが4年間の練習の原動力になりました

-- Born in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture in 1914, Hideko Maehata

The day I arrive at the start and don't feel the desire to drive as fast as possible, I'll stop.

-- Born in Quebec, Canada in 1950, Gilles Villeneuve