Rikard needs your help!
(should i say please?)

I am looking for a quote, it goes something like this. "The best swordsman always beat the second best because he knows what to expect, it is however the amateur that might do something stupid and kill the master"

I am not sure, but i believe it is Sun Tzu that said it.
Therefore i ask anyone who knows the correct qoute to post it since it is of great importance that i get the qoute right.

thank you,
/Rikard Svensson

When i think about it;
Either it is Nietzsche or it is Sun Tzu. (does not sound like a Nietzsche quote to me) If it is not then i have seen the quote elsewhere.

Please fill in the blanks here. and please correct the quote.

Anyone? please. it is of great importance

Sorry, never heard that quote before... I sure would like to know what it is though, sounds cool :)

Mark Twain, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot."

~Raithere

Raithere, thank you so much.

Not exactly the quote i have heard but it is most likely just the extended version.

I do not understand how i could ever have heard that Mark Twain qoute, I thought i read it in Sun Tzu's Art of War. Maybe they are in both ?
Anyway, thank you so much, i needed it very badly.

No problem

I couldn't find it in 'Art of War'
http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html

My guess is what you head was a paraphrasing of Twain's version.

~Raithere