20 Quotes by Masaaki Hatsumi

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

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

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.

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

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

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

What I want you to do is just take it as it is. Don’t think too much. If you get involved with thinking about it, the whole thing gets lost or loses its purity. Don’t think during practice – DO! The more you think, the further from the truth of budo you get: Budo is NOT an academic subject!

Always be able to kill your students.

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