A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

理想を持ち、信念に生きよ。理想や信念を見失った者は、戦う前から負けているといえよう。

-- Oda Nobunaga

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

-- Sakamoto Ryōma

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

-- Carl von Clausewitz

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-- Douglas MacArthur

The purpose of maintaining military forces for a hundred years is solely to preserve peace.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

-- Dante Alighieri