[5][6] Poteet also trained the Dallas Cowboys football team and bodyguards in Jeet Kune Do[7], and choreograph the fight scenes of several films.
Other Poteet’s notable students were Glenn Danzig, Michael Worth and Kevin Sorbo.
[citation needed] Poteet credited his teacher, Bruce Lee, with giving him the tools to survive, "the fight of my life", when he was compelled to undergo a liver transplant in 1995.
Until his death, Poteet taught Jeet Kune Do to the next generation of students and instructors.
[citation needed] The last years of Poteet's life were dedicated to preserving and refining the legacy he received from his instructor, Bruce Lee.