If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Technique conquers all.

I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.