Quotes About Martial arts

I'm a jiu-jitsu guy and that's my root.

One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!

I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.

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

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

I have a Gracie background and a Matt Serra background so I've always used jiu-jitsu but it takes a while to reach black belt level.

White Louisianians must have been relieved when the mayor banned free men of color from teaching the martial arts to their brethren. In New Orleans, it seems, good fencers did not make good neighbors—especially when they were colored.

I have a passion for martial arts and it's a part of my life.

Even if you see me with some pasta, I'm still strangling and arm-locking people at least five days a week and I need that.

Overeem is really smart when he's fighting, had the patience to wait for the right moment.

Paul had been training martial arts for many years.

Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.

Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

I want to become undisputed UFC welterweight champion. I've been so close a couple of times, but I don't want to leave the sport always a bridesmaid and never a bride. I want to get that belt around my waist.