Martial Arts Quotes

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

Ive been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I've always been interested in martial arts.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity.

. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners