You don't have to be great at one thing. You can be good at many things and still be the best.

The discipline and perseverance learned through sport apply to everything in life.

Rise early in the morning, retire early at night.

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

子供には物を与えるな、苦労をさせよ

-- The Japanese general whose siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War became synonymous with both the terrible cost of modern warfare and the samurai ideal of duty unto death

Hard in training, easy in battle.

-- The undefeated Russian generalissimus whose three

A few disciplined men are worth more than a disorganized multitude.

-- The Byzantine Empire's greatest general

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

-- The Theban general who shattered Sparta's military supremacy at Leuctra

You must listen to your body. Run through annoyance but never through pain.

-- Born in Turku, Finland in 1897, Paavo Nurmi