When Stanley Tong was a schoolboy, he excelled both in track and field and in swimming. When he was 12 years old, he saw Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury and The Big Boss. He greatly admired Lee, and started studying Hong Quan style Chinese kung fu and taijiquan.
在學校時田徑、游泳樣樣行的唐季禮，十二歲看到李小龍的《精武門》、《唐山大兄》後，很崇拜李小龍，就開始學洪拳、太極拳。