Martial arts Quotes

Always be able to kill your students

— Masaaki Hatsumi

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

— Bruce Lee

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

— Scott Glenn

Never leave an enemy standing.

— Shaka

Mixed Martial Arts is a new sport to India.

— Raj Kundra

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

— Nathanael Greene

Never depart from the way of martial arts.

— Miyamoto Musashi

Martial art has always been my first love.

— Akshay Kumar

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple...

— Carlson Gracie

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.

— Royce Gracie

As an Asian man in the industry, you had to know martial arts.

— Simu Liu

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

— Toshitsugu Takamatsu

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

— Miyamoto Musashi

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

— Muhammad Ali

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

— Mark Dacascos

That race you feel you are a part of is happening only in your mind.

— Ryron Gracie

If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

— Lyoto Machida

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

— Gogen Yamaguchi

I briefly studied martial arts in college and realised that I might not be a great fighter physically, but it gave me…

— Nushrat Bharucha

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

— Chael Sonnen

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

— Scott Coker

I'm just grateful that I have a chance to introduce traditional Indonesian martial arts to a worldwide audience.

— Iko Uwais

When you think that in the '50s there was wrestling and boxing - that was it. There wasn't mixed martial arts at…

— Jim Cornette

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the…

— Tamara Taylor

I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know...…

— Jet Li

One of the things that happens a lot in mixed martial arts and fighting in general is that fighters are played against…

— Jon Fitch

I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know…

— Greg Cipes

I've learned about my taxes through martial arts! After getting paid for fights, I didn't know what to do with my money…

— Leon Edwards

True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and…

— Gichin Funakoshi

Growing up either from classes or watching movies I knew, of course, about kung fu, karate, aikido, Muay Thai... But the first…

— Gareth Evans

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is…

— Frederick Lenz

It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize…

— Ralph Maxwell

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

“Go ahead, you guys. I'm not done with Kim yet." Braden made annoying kissing noises while Michelle giggled. "Fine with me," Kim…

— Cole Gibsen

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand…

— Miles Millar

...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God…

— Bruce Lee

There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata,…

— Gichin Funakoshi

In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger…

— David Fontana

The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than…

— Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a…

— Bruce Lee