I think that automatically took over and it made me work like heck to keep up with the others. I wanted to prove to him that I could make it. Bruce was very helpful to me in many ways. He took me from a low point of self-esteem and made me realize that I was a human being and that I am just as good as any other person, but yet no better. I owe him a lot for that.
Fisticuffs just open the door, the upper echelon, of life.
The more meaningful part is the spiritual, philosophical essence of what you are. Until you analyze yourself and realize what that means to you, you can't really relate to other people on that kind of a basis. Because Bruce has done so much to revolutionize the martial arts and has done so much for the world in general in that regard, his name shouldn't be muddied up or contorted in any way. We owe that to him. I think if Bruce were alive today, he would still be making a lot of changes.