My fave quotes from Bruce Lee...

Here are two of my all time favorite quotes from The Man himself...equally applicable to sparring, competitions and (the only thing I really care about vis a vis martial arts training) SELF DEFENSE.
They go a little something like this...

"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement. You ought not be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat, but let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment..."

and my personal favorite...

"Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!”

The first one is relevant to our situation in the sense that when shit goes down, your mind must turn off, you must be on auto pilot mode, programmed to dismantle whoever asks you to fuck them up (by either attacking you, your family, loved ones, etc.)At that point, if your mind starts working, you start losing. You must abandon your mind, and just let your (hopefuilly proper) training come out. Like a T-shirt I saw says, "If you have to stop and think...it's too late!"

The second quote perfectly encapsulates how one must view a life-or-death encounter-and let's be honest, not every life or death scenario looks like a mugger with a gun or rapist with a knife. It could be a young kid who rear ends you in traffic and then gets out of his car, a drunk middle aged guy at the local pub, or an irate customer at a gas station. You don't have the luxury of knowing when and where, so you must be prepared to do whatever it takes.

Like the bible verse goes, "he who tries to save his life will lose it; he who lays his life down will save it."

If I'm going to get into it, that bastard better knock my ass out or incapacitate me, because as long as I can stand I'm looking to fuck this guy up. And anyone who trains with me can tell you, I do have one hell of a hard head=-)

Train the material in the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course, available for purchase and immediate download at www.whitecollarwarrior.com/Products.html with the mentality described by Bruce's quotes and you will be a force to be reckoned with.

Be safe,

Bobby