Martial Arts Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Martial Arts

Martial Arts Quotes & Sayings

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I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies. — Thomas Ian Griffith

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself. — Bruce Lee

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office. — Mary Hart

Sod it. If he laid a finger on my David, I'd just have to use my newfound martial arts mojo and kick him in the Knuts. — J.L. Merrow

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts. — Tamara Taylor

Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime. — Chris Matakas

If you change the rules on what controls you ... you will change the rules on what you can control. — Guy Ritchie

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. — Jackie Chan

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart. — Tony Jaa

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it. — Zoey Deutch

All successful people live how great guard passers pass. — Chris Matakas

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning. — Christian Tissier

I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you. — Master Iain Armstrong

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. — Lou Reed

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion. — Wong Kar-Wai

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts. — Booboo Stewart

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

Once I win, everyone will know who my instructor is in mixed martial arts. — Ricardo Mayorga

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. — Zhuangzi

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else. — Joe Rogan

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears. — Christian Tissier

But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around. — Steve Harvey

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong. — Dolph Lundgren

Karate is for life, not points. — David Walker

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday. — Cameron Monaghan

Self-defenses mean self-defense, period. It leave nothing out. — Bohdi Sanders

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope. — Jet Li

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. — Meredith Baxter

One master those arts for health in mind and body, for the ability to live one's life as courageously, uniquely, and energetically as one wishes! — Akira Toriyama

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt. — Laura Vandervoort

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up. — Antony Starr

The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal. — Yip Man

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. — Frederick Lenz

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others. — Chris Matakas

The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu; it was to master myself. — Chris Matakas

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts. — Noah Hathaway

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives! — Carlos Machado

My time of martial arts was traditional. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. — Chris Matakas

Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable. — Miyamoto Musashi

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts. — Leo Howard

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience. — Josh Keaton

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts. — Pink

An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek. — Chris Matakas

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. — Bruce Lee

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it. — Jody Hill

Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance. — Linda Holiday

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. — Brandon Lee

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist. — Chris Matakas

I've always been interested in martial arts. — Tracy Spiridakos

Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about. — Wong Kar-Wai

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught. — Katheryn Winnick

Never write about martial arts..
if you've never been in a real fight. — Toba Beta

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill
someone, I can do something about it. — Neil Strauss

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same. — Terence Stamp

The ultimate fighter does not rely on his hands or feet to defeat his opponent, but rather his mind. — M.J. Stoddard

I've always been huge into martial arts. — Michael Steger

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin. — Sam Rockwell

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. — Bruce Lee

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there. — Melody Beattie

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not. — Bas Rutten

We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts. — Daniel Wu

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. — Akira Toriyama

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something. — Jet Li

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages. — Anderson Silva

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control. — Michelle Yeoh

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic. — John Woo

I train because it makes every area of my life better, and it makes me better at every area of my life. — Chris Matakas

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old. — Jet Li

No one has the right to beat you. — Ronda Rousey

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. — Jet Li

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket. — Jason Ritter

How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts? — DiAnn Mills

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit. — Georges St-Pierre

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger. — Mencius

Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control. — Frederick Lenz

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts. — Tami Hoag

Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing. — D.C. Gonzalez

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. — Morihei Ueshiba

Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create. — Chris Matakas

There is no such thing as a fair fight. — Bohdi Sanders

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan. — Sung Hi Lee

Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive. — Imi Lichtenfeld

A champion always prepares to win. — D.C. Gonzalez

I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it. — Chris Matakas

Everything in life goes back to the basics. — Kron Gracie

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities. — Rebel Wilson

The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way. — Jim Benton

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.' — William Sanderson

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind. — Dolph Lundgren

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it. — Michelle Ryan

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides. — Chris Matakas

The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. — M. Night Shyamalan

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. — Chris Matakas

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die. — Gichin Funakoshi