“I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he’s got to face. The hero is more disciplined and he fights those feelings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the coward. People who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you fee.”
~Cus D'Amato

"Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die."
~ Rory Miller (self-defense instructor) Meditations on Violence

The four truths: Assaults happen closer, faster, more suddenly, and with more power than most people believe."
~Rory Miller (self-defense instructor) Meditations on Violence

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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.”
~ Bruce Lee