The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-- The American general who commanded in the Pacific War and oversaw Japan's postwar occupation

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

-- America's most aggressive World War II general, whose Third Army's lightning advance across France in 1944 demonstrated that speed and audacity in exploitation could collapse enemy resistance faster than methodical advance (1885-1945). Patton believed he

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

-- Charles Dickens

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

-- Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922, Emil Zatopek

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

-- Born in Clarksville

俺の球を打てるもんなら打ってみろ

-- Born in Mie Prefecture, Japan in 1917, Eiji Sawamura