Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.
I plot my ascent daily.
I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don’t get to be world champion unless you do that.
Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.
There are two things I really like to do: whoop ass and look good. I’m doing one of them right now and on Saturday night, I’m doing the other.
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.
The way is in training.
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one’s weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one’s sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.
It is said the warrior’s is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible.
Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you’re here or out in the world dealing with problems. It’s second nature for me now. I don’t even get to the point where there’s a problem.
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The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.