“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.” IfsGivingMindBodyLosesEmotionEnemyLosing Yourself Author:Bruce Lee
“There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.” KnowsMenShouldMayArtDifferentSchoolBeliefProgressHeardObjectsClaimsContemporaryPursueMartial ArtsUnusualFoundersColleaguesOrderlyKarateInstructorsClassification Author:Gichin Funakoshi
“Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.” ArtFightingOvercomingHarderStriveMartial Arts Author:Thomas a Kempis
“Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.” WayArtRunningWaterNaturalResultsMovementMartial ArtsRight Way Author:Vladimir Vasiliev
“To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life are endless, and you cannot be prepared for every single thing. Therefore it's better to be able to move in a natural way, and not even physically but intuitively.” WayMayArtDifferentAbleMovingNaturalSituationPossibilityPreparedPatternsEndlessReactionsUselessMartial ArtsBe Prepared Author:Vladimir Vasiliev
“The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.” IfsWorldTryingWellsPersonsArtEndsQualityHumilityPrideKeysWarriorDevelopingDestructiveMartial Arts Author:Vladimir Vasiliev
“You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.” WayArtFightingWinningLosesMartial ArtsComing Back Author:Ben Jonson
“If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?” IfsArtTodayFightingTomorrowTrainingMartial Arts Author:Bruce Lee
“If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.” IfsArtFightingHappenedWorstLosingMartial ArtsWorst Things Author:Randy Couture
“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.” ArtWarFightingMilitaryBeatsRisingMartial ArtsBeatenInspirational MilitaryRevolutionary War Book:The papers of General Nathanael Greene Source: The papers of General Nathanael Greene