Martial Arts Quotes - Page 15

• My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

  Jason Scott

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

  Ed Parker

  Art, Humility, Self

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• Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way

  Chuck Norris

  Way, Obstacles, Achieve

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• Gain confidence and you banish fear.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Gains, Gaining Confidence

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• The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

  Ed Parker

  Strong, Fighting, Pride

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• Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

  Jet Li

  Art, Philosophy, Two

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

  Jet Li

  Art, Struggle, Self

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Looks, Wow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Art, Men

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a discipline, just like martial arts. No matter what you do, you have this sort of confidence that no one can take away from you - every time you step somewhere, you're sure of where you're going.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Art, Discipline

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

  Brandi Carlile

  Block, Stress, Artist

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• When you do hard routes, you have to try hard. They're not easy routes. You have to give everything you have. You have to get totally animalistic. When you're super pumped, I have to yell to bear down. [...] It's like martial arts. When Bruce lee threw a punch, he had to mean it. Haahhh! Like that. When you're doing a hard move, there is this excess energy you have to let out. Air explodes out of you.

  Chris Sharma

  Art, Moving, Mean

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• When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Skills, Like You

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

  Christian Cooke

  Art, Fun, Block

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• Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.

  Greg Cipes

  Art, Halloween, Turtles

  "Interview with Greg Cipes, TV's Michelangelo". Interview with David Burszan, www.denofgeek.com. November 4, 2013.

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• The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Causes, Happens

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• Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

  Aaron Yoo

  Art, Fighting, Athletic

  Source: collider.com

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• Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines.

  Chuck Liddell

  Art, Fighting, Train Hard

  "Chuck Liddell UFC 115 Interview". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

  Hiromi

  Art, Thinking, Focus

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• I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Art, Fighter, Kind

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• Once I win, everyone will know who my instructor is in mixed martial arts.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Art, Winning, Instructors

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• Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

  Bruce Lee

  Powerful, Reality, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.212, Tuttle Publishing

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• I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

  Jessica Biel

  Art, Hate, Self

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  Ed Parker

  Taught, Study

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