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

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

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

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

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.

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

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

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.

Female is female.

...don't act like I didn't for you.I did. Hard. And for a long time.So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.

When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.

If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

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