The day I arrive at the start and don't feel the desire to drive as fast as possible, I'll stop.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

-- Julius Caesar

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

Have you never touched this soft skin, flushed with hot blood? How lonely you must be, preaching the Way.

-- Akiko Yosano

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

-- Charles Dickens

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

-- Gabriel García Márquez

I played because I loved the sport, not for money.

-- Jim Thorpe