When We Train.

“The fencing strip is the mirror of the soul.”

Maestro Aldo Nadi

“The way is in training.”

Miyamoto MusashiGo Rin No Sho, 1645

“The entire secret of fencing lies in two things: to give and not to receive.”

MolièreLe Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1670

“Fencing is neither art nor science. Fencing is fencing!”

Dr. Francis Zold1977

“Patience is the first virtue of an épée fencer.”

Luigi BarbasettiThe Art of the Sabre and the Épée, 1936

“Fencing—is speed!”

Eugenio PiniQuoted in László Szabó, Fencing and the Master, 1977

“Never lose on purpose.”

Lajos Csiszár

“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.”

T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King, 1958

“Fencing is so perfect an art that the regulations framing it do not interfere in the least with the fighter's will.”

Aldo NadiOn Fencing, 1943

“Be simple, be smart.”

Italo Santelli

“[The épée] is a democratic weapon.”

Julio Martínez CastellóThe Theory and Practice of Fencing, 1933