Quotes About Martial arts

I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid form of grappling, sparring, and self defense; it's more of a 'get yourself in shape,' and if you want to take it to the next level, so you're really learning valuable skills with self defense, and I really enjoy it.

I see that martial artists and art gallery owners have a few things in common...We both get to say pretentious stuff that sounds way more insightful than it actually is.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he's good in standup and good at grappling.

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.

Was I a Jackie Chan-level martial arts master? Absolutely not! Not by any stretch of the imagination. I'm an actor. I'm a performer.

There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone's face, in terms of flexibility, it's all kind of the same thing.

When I started to strike a lot back in the days I lost a little bit my jiu-jitsu. It's normal.

I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.

Everybody knows where I come from and how my jiu-jitsu is, training at Macaco Gold Team, but I also work on my striking at Chute Boxe Diego Lima, so I'm prepared on the feet and on the ground.

I can do back fists, spinning kicks. I have more options, and I can show the better striking.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.

I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.

I just love striking.

Sometimes, you get kickboxers and all they've done is striking and they don't have the wrestling or jiu-jitsu background that I have had since I was young.

I need to improve my striking and my wrestling, but I always be best at jiu-jitsu.

I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.

Cinematically speaking, there's more of a striking appeal to karate. It's kicking and punching action. Jiu-jitsu is dudes rolling around and wrestling.

I came to a realization in 1999 of how important striking was going to become in this sport because it's the most efficient way to finish a fight.

Uriah Hall is on the level of Anderson Silva's striking.