No one told me we were playing the final. I thought it was just another game.

Is the goalkeeper aware that I am Garrincha?

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

The die is cast.

-- The Roman general

Imagination rules the world.

-- The French emperor whose military genius reshaped

Mountains, rivers, trees — all turned desolate. For ten miles, the wind carries the stench of a fresh battlefield.

-- 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

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Either explode in silence, or perish in silence.

-- Lu Xun