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.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

-- Zeno of Citium

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

The Empire's fate depends on this battle. Let every man do his utmost duty.

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

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

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