B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.

It's about getting in there and being ready, getting the fight on your terms, taking the least amount of punishment possible.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

People automatically think that because you attack, you can't defend. Not true.

That's the secret, hit without getting hit.

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.

The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

Atemi accounts for 99% of Aikido.

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

Can there be allowed - are we allowed to have any more in the military, General, the element of surprise? You know, I would think it would be a good thing. It's called an ancient strength and we don't use it anymore.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

If you have to hit--hit low.

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

She might be unarmed, but Rose Hathaway was in possession of many weapons.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.