For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

Believe me, nothing is trivial.