水泳は私のすべてでした

In that moment, I felt I could hear the entire nation cheering for me even underwater.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

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 shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

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

Promote talent and talent alone.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

We will either find a way, or make one.

-- The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and brought Rome to its knees