Quotes For Martial Artists To Live By

[peppi]

"The mastery of proper fundamentals and their progressive application is the secret of being a great fighter."

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

[chalambok]

"Context is everything." - David Iglesias (former US Attorney & lawyer for Richard Marcinko during trial for 'waterboarding' an Admiral as part of a Red Cell anti-terrorist exercise)

[liquidice]

“When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity I do not hit ... it hits all by it self " - Bruce lee
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[chalambok]

"There are no jokes. Truth is the funniest joke of all." - Muhammad Ali

[Inufreak]

"To fear death, is to limit life"
-Xin Sarith Azuma Phan Wuku
A.K.A Zen
from:
America gladiators
Emc Monkeys

[liquidice]

"The most important thing is Being NOT Doing. Its flowing without thinking, internalizing behaviors so that you don't have to think about them ever again, until they are automatic ! "

"I deal With the absurdity of existence by shoving absurdity's down existence troth" - Tyler Duden in the Movie Fight Club

[JadeDragon]

Do unto others before they do unto you. -Bobby "the brain" Heenan

Just do it. -Nike

No excuses, just results. -Mark Burgher

It doesn't matter how hard you get hit, it's about if you can keep going after you get hit. -Rocky Balboa (his last movie)

Win if you can. Loose if you must. But always cheat. -Mark Reed

[Inufreak]

Win if you can. Loose if you must. But always cheat. -Mark Reed

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Cheating is never an opinion.

[gregimotis]

"If you aren't cheating, you aren't trying hard enough."



'Judo' Gene LaBell

[JadeDragon]

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Cheating is never an opinion.

Opinion?????
Don't you mean option?

Besides, is there such a thing as cheating when it comes to fighting?

[Inufreak]

Opinion?????
Don't you mean option?

Besides, is there such a thing as cheating when it comes to fighting?

I mean't option.
? well you could pull out a gun. lol. =) But besides that I can't think of one.

[chalambok]

"If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way." - Mark Twain

[chalambok]

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryun

[gregimotis]

"Many men have the will to win, few men have the will to prepare to win"


Bobby McKnight

[Garland]

I feel the following quote can be applied to the Martial Arts community...and since we are currently engaged in armed conflicts in the Middle East, I think that a distinction needs to be made about "war-time" and instituting the draft...i.e. that this quote need not apply to soldiers who engaged in armed conflict...with that being said:

"We see a growing tendency to glorify the seamier aspects of man-killing. It is a peacetime phenomenon: were the nation at war men would have a bellyful of death, and thus be equipped to recognize killing for what it is- and at best and worst, a waste.
We are not at war, and have time, money, and the notion of an independent self to spend. The supposed necessities of combat are picked over in the pages of two dollar magazines, argued over in suburban living rooms, and vicariously endorsed by swaggering upstarts who see it as their purpose in life to shed blood. This is a sad sort of spiritual sickness, and we wonder if deep down inside those it infects, there isn't a frightened, lonely little boy, lost in a daydream, playing with a gun.
The point needs to be made that the men we have mentioned in this foregoing chronicle we not malecontents of the breed here described. They were law enforcement and military officers, sworn to protect and defend. (I will interject that I believe that this duty is one that also a yolk that belongs on the back of every mother, father, child, son, brother, sister, and good samaritan who honors the human conduct code and the lives and safety of their fellow Homo sapien.) They had no morbid interests to satisfy; merely a job to do, in bad circumstances not of their making. In memory of those men and the deeds they did, we feel compelled to remind you that the actions of individual human beings are like pebbles thrown into a pool; results radiate from them like ever-widening rings in the water. Whether such results are negative or positive depends entirely upon the motivation which governs the original action.
Thinking thus of cause and effect, we are motivated to offer the following advice:
Never shed innocent blood. All your life people will come up with good excuses why so-and-so ought to be shot. 'Because he is evil,' they will say. 'Because to kill him would be killing evil." If you look long and hard enough at evil men, you will find that they are ignorant, and ignorance is innocence. We do not mean that they are ignorant of their own evil, but ignorant of how to be good.
If you learn to look at the world this way, perhaps some day you will find there isn't as much justification for shooting as you thought there was. Possibly you will come to understant that the only justification for shooting down a man is to keep him from shedding innocent blood, or prevent him from killing you.
We suggest that if you ever kill a man to keep him from killing you, be certain you are indeed innocent, and we don't mean ignorant. We mean aware, and aware of even small things, as small as pebbles thrown into a pool."

-William L. Cassidy...Epilogue to "Quick or Dead"