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

When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.

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

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.

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