A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body! — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.” — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart. — Bruce Lee Copy Share
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity. — Bruce Lee Copy Share
