In that moment, I felt I could hear the entire nation cheering for me even underwater.

銀メダルの悔しさが4年間の練習の原動力になりました

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

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

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

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

-- William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

-- Henrik Ibsen