“There are, more or less, three kinds of people in the world. There are those who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen and there are those folks who so often say, ‘What happened?’”
Although Jhoon Goo Rhee spoke those words to me nearly 30 years ago, they might just as well have been said yesterday because they’re set in stone in my mind. Rhee was most certainly the kind of man who made things happen. In his 86 years, he made so many things happen — important things, things that have affected millions of people — that it puts him firmly in the company of the greatest masters in martial arts history.