Bruce-Lee_The Fighting Legend

   

Bruce Lee

   He was born on November 27, 1940. The Chinese name of Bruce-lee is Lee Jun-fan. He was Chinese based American actor, director, martial artist and martial arts coach.

Childhood

   Fight was in the nature of him since childhood once the police detective came and he says 

Excuse me Mr. Lee, your son is really fighting bad in school. If he gets into just one more fight I might have to put him in jail.
— Robert Lee

   In April 1959, Lee's parents decided to send him to the United States(San Francisco) to stay with his older sister, Agnes Lee.

Lee and Yip Man

   

Bruce Lee with IP-Man

   Lee was influenced by his teacher Yip Man also known as Ip Man. Lee started training with him at the age of 16.He encourage him to fight in competitions.

Bruce-Lee with IP Man

Inspiration

Bruce-Lee was inspired by The Great “Gama Pehlavan” who remain undefeated till death.

Bruce Lee's inspiration Gama Pehlavan

Facts

• Few people know but he  was also a poet and philosopher .

Bruce-Lee

• He was creator of the mix martial art  ”Jeet Kune Do”.
• His father was an Opera Star.
• He is considered as to be the "Most Influential Martial Artist" and a popular icon of the 20th century.

  

  Bruce-Lee

• He removed the gap between East and West and is often attributed with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.

•  He was one of the first to have tried contact lenses.

Humor

Bruce-Lee humouristic smile

   People who knew also claim that he had a great sense of humor.

Example 

Once he said:

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Bruce-Lee humouristic smile

Breath taking abilities

• Bruce Lee used to practice 5000 punches every single day.

• Bruce Lee’s kicks were terribly fast which maybe you already knew. But what you may not have known is that in one of the scenes in the film “Enter the Dragon” they had to re-shoot the scene of kick in slow motion so that viewers wouldn’t think it was fake(because it was hell of a fast).

• Bruce Lee legendary workouts are famous a lot.Lee could do up to 200 pushups – on only one finger or 100 on one thumb!
• He personally trained Kareem Abdul Jabbar (NBA champ) in kung fu, and the two often fought together.

Bruce-Lee with NBA Champ Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

• He was a huge Muhammad Ali fan. He used to watch his fights on film obsessively.

Muhammad Ali

Death

• He died on July 20, 1973 during sleep due to wrong use of medication.

Quotes

• Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
• Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
• Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
• A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.
• If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.
• Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

• I did love like a madman, but have enough sense to not love as a fool.
• We can see through others only when we see through ourselves
• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
• It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
• The possession of anything begins in the mind.
• I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
• As you think, so shall you become.
• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
• Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
• Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
• If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
• Obey the principles without being bound by them.
• It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.
• A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
• Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become empty to gain totality.
• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

The doubters said,

Man can not fly,

 The doers said,

Maybe, but we’ll try

And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

• Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
• You just wait. I’m going to be the Biggest Chinese Star in the world.
• Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
• Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
• I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
• A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

• Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

Be Water

• Water can flow or it can crash.
• Be water, my friend.It has no shape of its own, yet it can take any shape in which it is placed.
• In a cup, it becomes the shape of the cup. In a vase, it takes the shape of the vase and curls about the stems of flowers. Put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
• Be flexible so you can change with change.

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