30 Best Shifu Quotes

[after completing his training]
Shifu: You have done well, Panda.
Po: Done well? Done well? Ha, I've done awesome!
[Elbows Shifu]
Shifu: The sign of a true hero is humility. But, yes, you have done...
[elbows Po, causing him to stagger]
Shifu: ... awesome.
[They laugh]

Shifu: When you focus on kung fu, when you concentrate... you stink.
[Po frowns]
Shifu: But perhaps that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the Five. I now see that the way to get through to you, is with this.
[pulls out a bowl of dumplings]
Po: Oh great, 'cause I'm *hungry*!
Shifu: [laughs and pulls the bowl away] Good. When you have been trained, you may eat.
[He eats a dumpling]
Shifu: Let us begin.

Crane: Master, what are we going to do?
Shifu: *You* are going to find out where Kai is. Follow the trail of those jade creatures but do not engage For with every foe he faces Kai becomes stronger.
Crane: Why me? Is it because I asked?
Shifu: No. It is because you can fly. Go!
Mantis: Should have kept your beak shut!
Shifu: And take Mantis.
Mantis: What? Oh man, is it because I...
Shifu: Yes.

Shifu: [sitting down to eat] After you, Panda.
Po: What? Just like that? No sit-ups? No ten-mile hike?
Shifu: I vowed to train you, and you have been trained. You are free to eat.
[Po sits and picks up his chopsticks]
Shifu: Enjoy.
[Po lifts a dumpling to his mouth, but it is snatched away]
Po: Hey!
Shifu: I said, you are free to eat. Have a dumpling.
[Po tries another dumpling, it is snatched away again]
Shifu: You are free. To eat.
Po: Am I?
Shifu: ARE you?

Shifu: If you only do what you can do, you'll never be better than what you are.
Po: But I like who I am!
Shifu: You don't even know who you are!

Shifu: [after watching Po getting beat up by the obstacle course] There is now a level zero.

Shifu: Time is just an illusion, there is only the now.

Shifu: [intercepting Po, who is fleeing the temple after learning he has to face Tai Lung soon] You cannot leave! A real warrior never quits!
Po: Watch me!
[tries to run around Shifu]
Po: Come on! How am I supposed to beat Tai Lung? I can't even beat you to the stairs!
Shifu: You will beat him because you are the Dragon Warrior!
[pokes Po in his stomach]
Po: You don't believe that!
[Shifu swipes at his hand with Oogway's stick]
Po: You never believed that! From the first moment I got here, you've been trying to get rid of me!
[Shifu knocks him to the ground]
Shifu: Yes! I was! But now I ask you to trust in your master as I have come to trust in mine.
Po: You're not my master. And I'm not the Dragon Warrior.
Shifu: Then why didn't you quit? You knew I was trying to get rid of you, yet you stayed!
Po: Yeah, I stayed. I stayed, because every time you threw a brick at my head, or said I smelled, it *hurt*; but it could never hurt more than every day of my life just being *me*! I *stayed* because I thought, if anyone can change me, can make me... *not* me, it was you! The greatest kung fu teacher in all of China!
Shifu: But I can change you! I *can* turn you into the Dragon Warrior! And I will!
Po: Come on! Tai Lung is on his way here right now! And even if it takes him a hundred years to get here, how are *you* gonna change *this* into the Dragon Warrior? Huh? How? How? How!
Shifu: I don't know!
[sighs]
Shifu: I don't know.
Po: [sighs] That's what I thought.

Oogway: My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours, until you let go of the illusion of control.
Shifu: Illusion?
Oogway: Yes.
[points at peach tree]
Oogway: Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time.
Shifu: But there are things we *can* control.
[kicks the tree so that peaches fall]
Shifu: I can control when the fruit will fall!
[he slices a peach and throws the pit to the ground]
Shifu: I can control where to plant the seed! That is no illusion, Master!
Oogway: Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Shifu: But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung!
Oogway: [folding dirt over the peach pit] Maybe it *can*, if you are willing to guide it, to nurture it. To believe in it.
Shifu: But how? How? I need your help, master!
Oogway: No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu. Promise me you will believe.
Shifu: I... I will try.

Shifu: The student has truly become the tea - Wait. Where did you get that?
Po: Oh, this. Oogway gave it to me in the spirit realm.
Shifu: Ugh, of course he did.
Po: I think I mastered Chi.
Shifu: Oh, of course you did. Can you teach me?

Shifu: Kai. Kai. Kai. Nope. Never heard of him.

Shifu: Master! I have... it's very bad news!
Oogway: Ah, Shifu. There is just news. There is no good or bad.
Shifu: Master, your vision. Your vision was right! Tai-Lung has broken out of prison! He's on his way!
[pause]
Oogway: That IS bad news.

Shifu: Our only hope is the Dragon Warrior.
Tigress: The panda?
Shifu: Yes, the panda!
Tigress: Master, please!
[pushes chair out]
Tigress: Let us stop Tai Lung, this is what you've trained us for!
Shifu: No! It is not your destiny to defeat Tai Lung, it is his!
[points at Po, then realizes he's not there]
Shifu: Where'd he go?

Shifu: This could be the end of Kung Fu.
Po: But I just got Kung Fu!
Shifu: And now, you must *save* it!

[from trailer]
Po: Master Shifu? Good time, bad time?
Shifu: Time is an allusion, there is only the now.
Po: So now is a... good time?
Shifu: Oh!

Po: [checking to make sure Shifu is okay after his fight with Tai Lung] Master! Shifu! Shifu, are you okay?
Shifu: [coughs] Po. You're alive!... Or we're both dead.
Po: No, Master I didn't die. I defeated Tai Lung!
Shifu: You did?
[Po nods and smiles]
Shifu: Wow. It is as Oogway foretold, you are the Dragon Warrior. You have brought peace to this valley and... and to me. Thank you, thank you Po. Thank you, thank you.
[slowly lays his head back down, seemingly dead]
Po: No! No no no, don't die, Shifu please!
Shifu: I'm not dying, you idiot!
[he catches himself]
Shifu: Ah, Dragon Warrior. I am simply at peace.
[lays down and folds his hands together, smiling]
Shifu: Finally.
Po: Ooh, so um, I should... stop talking?
Shifu: If you can.
[Po lies down next to Shifu; long pause, then]
Po: Wanna get something to eat?
Shifu: [sighs] ... Yeah.

[Po gazes upon the Dragon Scroll and screams...]
Po: It's blank!
Shifu: What?
Po: Here, look!
[Po holds out the scroll]
Shifu: No, I am forbidden to look upon...
[Shifu grabs the Scroll and looks for himself]
Shifu: Blank!... I don't, I don't understand...

Shifu: [searching through Oogway's scroll library] There's so much wisdom in here, I can't find anything!

[after hiking up into the mountains, Shifu and Po stop at a pool of water]
Po: [panting] You... dragged me all the way up here... for a bath?
[he scoops up some water]
Shifu: Panda, we do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears.
Po: The Pool of-?
[he quickly shakes the water off his paw]
Shifu: This is where Oogway unraveled the mysteries of harmony and focus. This... is the birthplace of kung fu.
[cut to a vision of the yinyang and young Oogway mastering kung fu]
Shifu: [leaping to the top of a rock] Do you want to learn kung fu?
Po: Yeah!
Shifu: Then I *am* your master!
Po: [sniffling] Okay!
Shifu: Don't cry.
Po: [wiping his nose] Okay.

Tai: [attacking Shifu] What I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud you are Shifu! Tell me! TELL ME!
[he knocks Shifu to the ground]
Shifu: [quiet and sad] I have always been proud of you. From the first moment I've been... proud of you. And it was my pride that blinded me. I loved you too much to see what you were becoming. What I... was turning you into. I'm s... I'm sorry.
[long pause, then Tai Lung growls and seizes Shifu by the throat]
Tai: I don't want your apology! I want my scroll!

Po: [dazed] What are you pointing at? Oh! Okay. Sorry, I just wanted to see who the Dragon Warrior was.
Oogway: How interesting.
Tigress: Master, are you pointing at... me?
Oogway: Him.
Po: Who?
[Moves around, Oogway's finger follows him]
Oogway: You.
Po: What?
Oogway: [Raising Po's arm with his stick] The universe has brought us the Dragon Warrior!
Po: What?
Tigress,6835: What?
Shifu: WHAT?
Mr. Ping: WHAT?

Oogway: My time has come.
[hands his staff to Shifu]
Shifu: What? What are you...?
Oogway: You must now continue your journey without me.
Shifu: No! WAIT! Master! You can't leave me!
Oogway: You must believe...
Shifu: MASTER!
[in a haze of peach blossoms, Oogway ascends to the heavens]

Shifu: You must take the next step on your journey, from warrior to teacher.
Po: But I'm no good at it!
Shifu: You're terrible at it!

Shifu: Let us begin.
Po: What? Well, uh, I don't know if I can do *all* those moves...
Shifu: [chuckles] Well, we'll never know unless we try, will we?
Po: Well, maybe we could start out with something more at, you know, my level.
Shifu: And what level is that?
Po: Uh, well, I'm not a master but, let's just say zero, level zero.
Shifu: [chuckles] There is no such thing as level zero.
Po: Well, what about that?
[He indicates a small dummy]
Shifu: That? We use that for training children, and for propping the door open when it's hot. But, if you insist...

Oogway: There are no accidents.
Shifu: [sighs] Yes, I know. You said that already. Twice.
Oogway: Well, that was no accident either.
Shifu: Thrice.

Shifu: Behold. All of the answers will be found within.
[unveils scroll]
Shifu: What? It's blank? Are you kidding me? Not again.

Shifu: But who? Who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? To become the Dragon Warrior?
Oogway: I don't know.

Shifu: Before the battle of the fist comes the battle of the mind... then the dramatic entrance

Po: I don't know what she told you, but I am done.
Shifu: teaching or been humiliating?
Po: both, I don't know why you ever thought I could teach that class.
Shifu: I knew you couldn't
Po: what? You set me up to fail? why?
Shifu: if you only do what you can do you will never be more than you are now.
Po: I don't want to be more; I like who I am.
Shifu: you don't even know who you are
Po: what? Of course, I do, I am the dragon worrier
Shifu: And what exactly does that means?... dragon worrier

Po: [Shifu has made a flower bloom with the power of chi] Woah! What was that?
Shifu: That was chi.
Po: Wow! What's chi?
Shifu: The energy that flows through *all* living things.
Po: So you're saying if I-so you're saying if I teach, I'll be able to do cool stuff like that?
Shifu: No, I'm saying if you teach, *I'll* be able to do cool stuff like that.
Po: Oh.
Shifu: Mastering chi requires mastery of self. Oogway sat alone in a cave for *thirty* years, asking one question: who am I? Who am I? I'm lucky if I get five minutes before you interrupt...
Po: Aw, so now I have to sit alone in a cave for thirty years?
Shifu: Eventually. After you master teaching.
Po: Teaching? There's no way I'm ever gonna be like you!
Shifu: I'm not trying to turn you into me; I'm trying to turn you into you.