Bruce Lee (Chinese 李小龍 / 李小龙, Pinyin Lǐ Xiǎolóng, Jyutping Lei5 Siu2Lung4, Cantonese Lee Siu-Lung, born November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, † July 20, 1973 in Hong Kong; actually Lee Jun-fan Chinese was a Sino-American martial artist, Martial Arts Instructor and ActorHe is regarded as an icon of martial arts film and is regarded by many as the greatest martial artist of the 20th century. He developed the martial arts style Jeet Kune Do.
1 * „Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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.”
2 * „A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, „I” do not hit, „it” hits all by itself.”
3 * „Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.“
4 * „I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.“
5 * „If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.“
6 * „Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing.“)
7 * „The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.“
8 * „Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.“
9 * „Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.“
10 * „Be water, my friend.”
A thought of one of the greatest martial artists .With the highest precision and dedication perfected skills .