Quotes About Culture

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

It's an advantage for me fighting in Japan. I'm familiar there. I have friends there. I've been fighting so long there.

In Japan, football has grown but it doesn't mean that baseball has regressed. Baseball also has grown with football.

I went to Japan for three months and I learned a lot about strong style over there.

I love Japan. I loved going out there and I love the fan base, and I loved everything that I was doing out there, but the opportunity to come home and to be on U.S. television and see my friends and family, the idea was to be able to tour the U.S. and be a part of that.

My kids are from Japan. My kids grandparents are from there, and they never really watched me fight back in the day.

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

I watched Japanese style wrestling, European style wrestling, and WCW.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.

Japanese food is healthy, but it doesn't make you bigger.

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.