A wolf should be beaten first, so that it is badly wounded. Then the other wolves will smell his blood, and know what might happen to them, and so never come again.
12 seconds sound clip from the The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:47:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Will you allow me to become a guardian so I can practice stick fighting?
- The stick fighting room is only for proper monks.
- No one else may fight unless the Abbott himself says so.
- Master, not so fast. I may not be very holy 'cause I'm a soldier...
- I know how to fight and I train hard and I am not afraid of wolves.
- After all, a wolf with no teeth can hardly kill. Worked well for us in the past.
- Master, that just isn't good enough.
[...]