Quotes About Martial arts

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

I did a bit of karate - I'm a blackbelt - so I know how to move.

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.

I did karate.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous.

I started doing karate when I was 11.

First I tried karate but I didn't like it because it was boring. There was no action like you see in the movies.

Elvis was a seventh-degree black belt in karate. My dad knew that he couldn't dance like Elvis or sing like him, but he thought maybe he could try karate, and he fell in love with it.

I started this martial arts journey 20 years ago with karate, and I never imagined it would come to pass that I would be in the UFC.

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

I love the liver kick.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

I started off doing martial arts, and then I started kick boxing shortly after that.

I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.

As a 4-year-old, I saw two men competing in the ring, and I thought it was martial arts. I asked my parents if I could do martial arts. So, I was 5 or 6-years-old, and I was doing karate and jiu-jitsu. Later on, I started kickboxing. Then, it just progressed. I did a little bit of everything, but predominantly, I did kickboxing.

Kickboxing tightens you up.

Something I always liked to train is kickboxing.

Me coming from a karate and kickboxing background, Anderson Silva was like my idol, and so was Machida, especially with his karate background.

I have improved my kickboxing, and I am very good on the ground.

I realize judges don't understand what the hell kicks are doing.

I've got a lot of power in my kicks.

Whenever I fight, whenever you see me fight, I work a lot off of angles, using my kicks a lot.