Karate Quotes · Page 4

When I was nine years old, I was on the cover of 'Sport Karate' magazine.

— Sage Northcutt

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

— Nick Harkaway

Just used my Complete Works of karate to crush a cockroach.

— Nikhil Saluja

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.

— Gichin Funakoshi

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

— Don Knotts

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

— Ritika Singh

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

— Kenwa Mabuni

I'm so proud of my time in karate and what I achieved. It's part of me, so I don't want to leave…

— Anne-Marie

First I tried karate but I didn't like it because it was boring. There was no action like you see in the…

— Andy Ruiz Jr

Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques...

— Mas Oyama

With 'The Karate Kid' especially, there's been so many references and visual images from that film, you know? Who knew that 'Wax…

— Ralph Macchio

This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will…

— Coolio

You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing.

— William Zabka

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be…

— Shigeru Egami

I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That's something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a…

— Dolph Lundgren

You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like…

— Gichin Funakoshi

One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe…

— Herschel Walker

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Karate moved slowly through the lobby. His gaze went to Belghazi and his eyes hardened in a way that would mean nothing…

— Barry Eisler

If you look at a lot of the best kicking footwork in the sport, karate has a huge influence. You can't be…

— Frank Mir

The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each…

— Shigeru Egami

I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid…

— Daniella Alonso

“We face the enemy and contend with him—if he turns away we let him go. (Page 13).”

— Sadami Yamada

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

— Antony Starr

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

— Gichin Funakoshi

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.

— Justin Hires

“[...] before you can control your opponent's body you must first control his mind. (Page 17).”

— Sadami Yamada

Elvis was a seventh-degree black belt in karate. My dad knew that he couldn't dance like Elvis or sing like him, but…

— Stephen Thompson

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

— Soke behzad Ahmadi

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the…

— Shoshin Nagamine

“The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants ”

— Gichin Funakoshi

“the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today’s kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything…

— Eric H Cline

I was in 'The Outsiders,' which was a good launching pad for me, but 'The Karate Kid' sent me into a different…

— Ralph Macchio

When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.

— Gichin Funakoshi

Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the…

— Georges St-Pierre

In karate, there's a lot of respect. In fact, when an opponent accepts to fight me, he's giving me a chance to…

— Lyoto Machida

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still…

— Liv Tyler