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.

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

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.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

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.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.