The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power.

One chance is all you need.

児孫のために美田を買わず。

-- Saigō Takamori

Eis ton kratiston. (To the strongest.)

-- Alexander the Great

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

-- Alexander the Great

In war there is no substitute for victory.

-- Douglas MacArthur

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

-- Epaminondas

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

-- Osamu Dazai