One chance is all you need.

I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

児孫のために美田を買わず。

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

Eis ton kratiston. (To the strongest.)

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday

In war there is no substitute for victory.

-- The American general who commanded in the Pacific War and oversaw Japan's postwar occupation

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

-- The Theban general who shattered Sparta's military supremacy at Leuctra

All for one and one for all.

-- Alexandre Dumas