Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing