Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

— Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
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