1. Individuality should be attained after a solid base has been established.
2. Contemporary ideals are great... but all things stem from a classical base.
3. You get out what you put in.
4. No matter how good you are... you're gonna get hit.
5. Everything is a circle - no beginning and no end.
6. Speed beats power.

"A perfect technique is a technique that works."

"In martial arts YOU ARE FORGED IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR OWN WILL... no train... no skill."

"Kung Fu is a circle. It has no beginning and no end."

"If you fight, you're gonna get hit."

"If you can't take a punch, don't fight"

Stealing the Energy: "If I'm standing in front of somebody, there's an energy focus. To steal the energy, one strikes that area or they strike a different area, they take the energy away from where it's strong, and then you can attack where the energy is now weak."

"...if the only ideas that run through the mind [when deciding to take up a martial art] are to 'kick some butt' or to impress the 'babes' - please…go bowling."

"Your martial art ability is the echo of yourself."

Forms: "THE MAIN RULE... KNOW WHAT EACH AND EVERY MOVE IS FOR, AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DO NOT FIGHT IN FORM. When the move is needed... it'll be there!"

"First form, then speed, then power."

"Know yourself...sooner or later your style will know itself within you."

"Be like a circle: continuous, ever-forward, improvisational."

"From within one small warrior spreads thoughts and words that will reach hundreds - these hundreds will then utter the very same words reaching thousands-and those thousands then shall cry out these very same thoughts, which will soon encompass the world! What will this small warrior say?"

"Once you believe in yourself, there is no mountain, there is only a pathway."

"Wishing: is the end result of one's avoidance of total sacrifice to reach a certain goal or objective."

"So, why shouldn't I keep reaching for the light? It's a really easy thing to do, because the light is there, you can see it, you reach for it. There shouldn't be any kind of big dilemma about it - just keep reaching for it. If somebody cuts off my arm, well then I'll reach with the other one!"

"Never walk away from yourself."

"I'll never let another individual affect the way I live my life or sway my personal energy in any way, shape, or form!!"

"I could huff and puff and go out of my way to try and convince ya!! but as my father always said 'People who need convincing--will never be there when they're needed most.'"

"Ever-changing means ever-forward, and ever-forward means swift adaptation or extinction."

"When your number is called... it don't matter how fast you are... you gotta dock the boat and get off for the next rider."

"I could be panting...I could be un-panting... I might not have any pants on at all!! *LOL*... and where are my pants?!! *ROTFLMAO*"

"I'll HOLD MY BREATH UNTIL I TURN RED, THEN BLUE... THEN GREEN... THEN A PLAID OF SOME SORT!! *LOL*"

"I love WWF... it's a Soap Opera for men... *LOL*"

"I have every episode of the first 5 seasons of the Power Rangers on tape *LOL*... and now that Amy Jo Johnson is on 'Felicity'.. guess what I tape? *LOL*"

"Green lime jello to you.... Green lime Jello to you... Green lime Jelllo to you two... and a pound of whip cream too.!!"

"HOLY SCHNIKIES !!"

"IF YA SMELLLLL....WHAT THE SIFU.....IS COOKIN'!"

"IF YA SMELLLLL......take a bath!! *LOL*"

Re: The Mile High Club - "I'm a member...Oh, I thought you said the Pile it High Club! *LOL*"

"I am apparently, a peanut of some sort... so please don't touch the shell... unless you mean it!! *LOL*"

"I'll be around... and around... and around... and around... and now I'm dizzy!! *LOL*"

Re: Pillow fights - "... it's da best therapy going... a knock down drag out... feather flying... material ripping... take about 5 days to clean up... PILLOW FIGHT! after one of dem.... der ain't no problem wiff da world! LOL"

"Rumours should be treated like Pauly Shore films...
Watch, Listen... and then laugh your butt off...
Then try to fathom how that film ever got made!!"

"I have no wife to bother me life... no lover to prove untrue... the whole day long I laugh at this song and paddle me own canoe!!" (The Wolfe Tones)

Favorite Cartoon: The Flintstones

"I don't look for anything when I train someone... their best qualities come to me... they (qualities) show themselves... It's the way you teach that should be addressed... when an individual listens with 'confidence' rather than through 'intimidation', you would be amazed at what comes up to the surface."

"The key to being a good instructor is catering to the individual -- but not taking away from the style you are teaching."

"You are not allowed to say, 'I can't' in my classroom. You can say 'I'm having trouble', 'I'll get it eventually', or even 'Glen's a moron. He's not teaching it right because I'm not getting it'. Anything but 'I can't' "

"When teaching... an instructor has to be prepared to learn."