No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

Have we won? Then it is enough.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Rise early in the morning, retire early at night.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

This man might be the one to seize the realm.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and the architect of his greatest victories

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

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule