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

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

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.

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 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.

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