Masaaki Hatsumi Quotes

When weak or injured always continue training as you should always be able to adapt in any condition.

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

Always be able to kill your students

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

The first priority to the ninja is to win without fighting.

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.

You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and your opponent). Distancing is very important.

No more talk. I'm sick of people talking. Train.

You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that punches them.

Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end. There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got them, you're dead because you didn't.

Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

Move with your feet, the hands will follow.

Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.

The simplest is always the most difficult.

From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.

Separate yourself from the technique; separate yourself from yourself.

You must throw away your bad habits to get good.

It is important to practice so your movement is the minimum necessary to complete its task.

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

You are not just fighting one opponent. You are fighting the unknown.

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.

Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.

Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.

Breathe life into the weapon, don't take life away from it. Keep walking, because walking is life.

You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.

There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in mind with grave consideration.

If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.