Bruce!

"It is like a finger pointing to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of that heavenly glory."

He could kick your ass, my ass, your tough older brother's ass. He could beat up your dad, your uncle who knows special forces shit, Hulk Hogan, a ninja, all the Nazis and probably even a bear. He also came up with the premise for the show "Kung Fu," starring the late David Carradine. Originally he was set to play Caine, but the studio essentially stole the project so they could use a white actor to play the Chinese monk.


In a speed demonstration, Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind. He could do fifty one-armed chin-ups and even thrust his fingers into cans of soda — the kind they used in the 70's which were steel, and thicker than aluminum cans. He could throw grains of rice up into the air and then catch them in mid-flight using chopsticks. I'm not making this shit up.

He surrounded himself with books, mostly pertaining to martial arts, combat and sports from around the world, but he was still much more than that. He was sensitive, spiritual, eerily intelligent and he had style.