Able Quote by Shigeru Egami

Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to…

— Gichin Funakoshi

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.

— Seth Rogen

Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

— Shoshin Nagamine

My time of martial arts was traditional.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually…

— Anko Itosu

Karate-Do is a lifetime study

— Kenwa Mabuni

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

— Antony Starr

I liked the movement, technique and philosophy and I was training to be the best. Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know…

— Jean Claude Van Damme

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

— Brandon Lee

My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I…

— Lyoto Machida

I started doing karate when I was 11.

— Ian Brown

I've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.

— Suki Waterhouse