Quotes About Martial arts

Tae kwon do required focus, strength, and endurance, but mostly it required the ability to deal with looking like an ass in public.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Boards don't hit back.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

You stupid chick ... nun ... whatever. I'm a tenth-degree black belt in Korean Karate!"  "But you don't have the power of God, you uncircumcised philistine!

You can't go into the cage and not love it, and you can't go in there unprepared. You have to prepare.

In most kung fu films, they want to create a hero who's always fighting a bad guy. In the story of Ip Man, he's not fighting physical opponents. He's fighting the ups and downs of his life.

All I want to do is what I do best: go out there and put a hand or a foot upside somebody's head.

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though.

A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.

I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.

My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

Success in many martial arts, such as akido, tai chi and qui gong, depends on the practitioner tapping into his or her spiritual energy, also known as chi or ki, through specialized breath control techniques.

Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

I did a bit of everything, and I was never beaten. I was into Bruce Lee, mate. Oh yeah! I love my combat sports.

I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both ways.

All-In Fighting by W. E. Fairbairn and Shooting to Live, also by Fairbairn, but co-authored with a certain E. A. Sykes.

And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfallsSomehow or other I always seemed to putIn the wrong place. And as for war, my warsWere global from the start.

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

MMA is a full contact sport, a kind of an organized street fight, which uses both striking and grappling techniques and involves 36 different martial arts.

As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.