Bruce Lee - Born 1940, Died 1973 is the greatest martial artist of the 20th century.

"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."

"The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, "We've just begun."

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."

"Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline towards the ultimate reality in combat.Jeet Kune-Do is the only non-classical style of Chinese Kung Fu in existence today. It is simple in its execution, although not so simple to explain. Jeet means 'to stop, to stem, to intercept,' while Kune means 'fist' or 'style,' and Do means 'the way' or 'the ultimate reality.' In other words--'The Way of the Intercepting Fist.'"

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."

"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."

"In Jeet Kune-Do, physical conditioning is a must for all martial artists. If you are not physically fit, you have no business doing any hard sparring. To me, the best exercise for this is running. Running is so important that you should keep it up during your lifetime. What time of the day you run is not important as long as you run. In the beginning you should jog easily and then gradually increase the distance and tempo, and finally include sprints to develop your 'wind.'
Let me give you a bit of warning: just because you get very good at your training it should not go to your head that you are an expert. Remember, actual sparring is the ultimate, and the training is, only a means toward this. Besides running, one should also do exercises for the stomach - sit-ups, leg raises, etc. Too often one of those big-belly masters will tell you that his internal power has sunk to his stomach; he's not kidding, it is sunk and gone! To put it bluntly, he is nothing but fat and ugly."

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."


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[icHiro] It is totally sad that this man is no longer with us on this earth. The man clearly had the knowledge and skills vastly superior over any martial artists, and philosophers of his time, and beyond.