I don't want to be remembered as a tough man. I want to be remembered as a winner.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're a champion?

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

I share the same clothing and food as the lowest-ranking soldier.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

The more troops, the better I command them.

-- The greatest military mind of early imperial China, whose campaigns established the Han dynasty (c. 231-196 BCE). Han Xin's tactical innovations — including the legendary 'battle with backs to the river' — demonstrated that battlefield psychology and terrain exploitation could overcome any numerical disadvantage. His reward

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

The die is cast.

-- The Roman general