On his first favorite techniques, Okuri-Ashi-Harai and De-Ashi-Harai, Anton Geesink from "My Championship Judo".

I won in minor competitions with them, then major competitions, became Dutch champion and finally European champion. But I noticed that my Judo was by no means perfect. In Judo circles, they had started talking about me as " the man with Okuri-Ashi-Harai, or De-Ashi-Harai" … The result was that they started preparing themselves for my Ashi-Waza, which made it more and more difficult for me to win with De-Ashi-Harai or Okuri-Ashi-Harai. If I wanted to remain successful, I realised, I should have to extend my competition arsenal.

Jigoro Kano from "Kodokan Judo"

To sum up, judo is a mental and physical discipline whose lessons are readily applicable to the management of our daily lives.

Isao Okano from "Vital Judo - Throwing Techniques"

I am not good at blocking and fending attacks; therefore, I lack the confidence to stand and wait to see what the opponent is going to do. I prefer to move deliberately and quickly into attacks. My shouts of "come on" are merely a device to quiet my own insecurity. I am by no means embarrassed to admit this weakness, because, as I have explained at some length, no one is without weak points and a knowledge of them and an earnest desire to overcome them can become springboards to the development of greater strength.