I don't want to be remembered as a tough man. I want to be remembered as a winner.

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

He who is ashamed of slave origins is no true warrior.

-- The Mamluk sultan who stopped the Mongol advance at Ain Jalut

My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

-- The Theban general who shattered Sparta's military supremacy at Leuctra

A cowardly pride and an arrogant sense of shame.

-- Atsushi Nakajima

Man errs as long as he strives.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

-- Mori Ogai

I wanted the world to know that my country, Ethiopia, has always won with determination and heroism.

-- Born in Jato, Ethiopia in 1932, Abebe Bikila ran the 1960 Rome Olympic marathon barefoot and won - then defended his title wearing shoes at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He heralded the era of African distance running dominance. From Imperial Guard to Olympic champion to paraplegic after a car accident, his