Martial Quotes

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

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

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

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.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

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