I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

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

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- 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

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

Audacity, audacity, always audacity!

-- The Prussian king whose oblique order and disciplined army made a small northern kingdom into a European great power