Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

It is precisely in failure that we find the seeds of the next success.

-- Takamine Jōkichi

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

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

-- Sakamoto Ryōma

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

-- Zhuge Liang