The mat is my church, the ground is my heaven, Jiu-Jitsu is my religion. Once you hit the ground you're in my world.
The ground is like an ocean and I'm like a shark and most people don't even know how to swim.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
-Gandhi
He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position
- Ed Parker
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
The harder you train, the harder it is to surrender.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
If training is hard, then winning will be easy, but if training is easy, then winning will be hard.
- Norman Harris
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- Bishop W. C. Magee
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
- Benjamin Lipson
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
- Bruce Lee
Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash.Be water, my friend.
-Bruce Lee