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

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

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

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains save both.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies