Martial Arts famous quotes
03-24-2025
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
-- Abu Bakr -
You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!
-- Adriano Directo Emperado -
If you train 100% the result will be 100%.
-- Anderson Silva -
Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.
-- Brandon Lee -
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
-- Bruce Lee -
To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
-- Bruce Lee -
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.
-- Bruce Lee -
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
-- Bruce Lee -
Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.
-- Bruce Lee -
If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.
-- Bruce Lee -
When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.
-- Caio Terra -
I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!
-- Carlos Machado -
If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.
-- Chael Sonnen -
Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.
-- Christian Tissier -
One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.
-- Christian Tissier -
I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
-- Dakota Goyo -
At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.
-- Enson Inoue -
A true champion can adapt to anything.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.
-- Guy Ritchie -
You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.
-- Helio Gracie -
I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.
-- Helio Gracie -
I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.
-- Helio Gracie -
Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.
-- Imi Lichtenfeld -
My health has benefited the most from practising Wing Chun.
-- Ip Chun -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
-- Jackie Chan -
When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
-- Jackie Chan -
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
-- Jackie Chan -
I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.
-- Jason Statham -
My time of martial arts was traditional.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
-- Jet Li -
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
-- Jet Li -
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.
-- Kelly Hu -
A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.
-- Kenji Tomiki -
There are no shortcuts because there is no end
-- Kyuzo Mifune -
I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.
-- Lynn Collins -
Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn.
-- Manuel dos Reis Machado -
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
-- Mas Oyama -
Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.
-- Mas Oyama -
I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.
-- Michelle Ryan -
It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
-- Nathanael Greene -
I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.
-- Neil Strauss -
I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
-- Noah Hathaway -
If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.
-- Rickson Gracie -
The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.
-- Rickson Gracie -
Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.
-- Rickson Gracie -
Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.
-- Rudy Giuliani -
Those who rush are the same ones who lack technique.
-- Ryron Gracie -
It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts
-- Saulo Ribeiro -
All art is political, all art is a martial one.
-- William C. Brown -
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
-- William C. Brown -
Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.
-- William Kwai Sun Chow -
When I started martial arts... Bruce Lee is obviously the top dog and Jackie Chan is a legend. But for a lot of westerners it was Van Damme. He was the first person you saw that made you realise you didn't need to be Asian or Oriental to do that stuff.
-- Joey Ansah -
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.
-- Sundra Oakley -
Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.
-- Tim Fargo -
I've always been interested in martial arts.
-- Tracy Spiridakos -
In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.
-- Bonnie Canino -
I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.
-- Cung Le -
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
-- Ed Parker -
People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'
-- Ronda Rousey
