Quotes from Masaaki Hatsumi

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter! Try again. Fail again. Fail better! Understand? Good. Play.

Shikin Haramitsu DaiKo Myo

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