I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course - the space between your ears.

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

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

Governance must be clean and transparent.

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

Do not buy fertile fields for your children and grandchildren.

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

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

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen