I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.

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

児孫のために美田を買わず。

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Eis ton kratiston. (To the strongest.)

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun