I continuously go further and further. What is important is the journey.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' And so you touch this limit again and again and again. And you find the limit is not there.

信玄の兵法に、のちの勝ちを大切にするとある。それもよいが、わしは先の勝ちを大切にする。

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

The greatest warrior in Japan.

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Come and take them.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Act, and God will act.

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