No one told me we were playing the final. I thought it was just another game.

Is the goalkeeper aware that I am Garrincha?

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- Ōkubo Toshimichi

The die is cast.

-- Julius Caesar

Imagination rules the world.

-- Napoleon

Mountains, rivers, trees — all turned desolate. For ten miles, the wind carries the stench of a fresh battlefield.

-- Nogi Maresuke

Either explode in silence, or perish in silence.

-- Lu Xun

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry