Martial Art Quotes · Page 31

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

— Chuck Norris

I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

— Nate Diaz

I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I…

— Valentina Shevchenko

I've been training mixed martial arts and kickboxing so I think that will give me better overall conditioning to become a world…

— Bob Sapp

Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always…

— Wong Kiew Kit

“Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art. It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack.”

— Toba Beta

I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

A lot of people think martial arts are just fighting, but it's character-building, too, and I want to give back.

— Stephen Thompson

With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.

— Vitor Belfort

You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made…

— Milla Jovovich

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

— Ip Chun

Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in…

— Rose Namajunas

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

— Bruce Lee

I want to become the greatest. Not merely in pro-wrestling, but in martial arts as a whole.

— Antonio Inoki

I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the…

— Dorian Yates

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial…

— Jackie Chan

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

— Luke Rockhold

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

— Jet Li

I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different…

— Maurice Ashley

That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the…

— Demetrious Johnson

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and…

— Mako

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was…

— Jody Hill

I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most…

— Daniele Bolelli

When you do hard routes, you have to try hard. They're not easy routes. You have to give everything you have. You…

— Chris Sharma