Martial Quotes

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

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory

There is no force in Earth or Heaven above, No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen, Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory

~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved~

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

linear brains can't curve a thought.

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Karate without heart is just A corpse

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they’re drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori

Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.

Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress . . .

...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.

The true work of the martial arts is progress, not perfection

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

A champion always prepares to win.

Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you.

Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.

Getting down to the gym a couple days a week and having low-fat milk in your morning latte isn’t going to make much of a dent in a system or lifestyle that is essentially, well, unwell.

The subjective experience of intense pain (“That’s all I can take”) corresponds exactly to one’s subjective experience in relation to truth (“That’s all I can take”).

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego