Incessantly famous quotes

Art without knowledge is nothing!

I was a total dork in high school.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

In 1997, when I started as a professional athlete, my sport was not like it is now. I needed to develop myself to beat the next generation, but things also changed in the sport. Bikes have changed, the sport has gotten faster, and it's becoming more professional. But my goal always was to try to be one step in front of all the others. That was my motivation. That helped me to work every day during the year, and very hard. And it never stopped.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance