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.

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

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

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

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

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.