Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.