Martial Arts Quotes - Page 23

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  It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, May, Firsts

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Father, Son

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• Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Looks, Action

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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• A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Real, People

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• My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

  Royce Gracie

  Art, Giving, Chance

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• Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Stronger, Technique

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• Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Thinking, Answers

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• My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.

  Rickson Gracie

  Loyalty, Art, Mma

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• I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Facts, Wanted

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• When you are on the ground, only one of you two can be comfortable at any one time. Either you are comfortable or the opponent is. Your job is to transfer the comfortable from him to you in every position

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Jobs, Two

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• Study is a life long pursuit.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Long, Study

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• For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Pain, Sleep

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• If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Kings, Elephants

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• It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

  Renzo Gracie

  Art, Mma, Bravery

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• Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

  Renzo Gracie

  Art, Fighting, Men

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• Everything in life goes back to the basics.

  Kron Gracie

  Art, Basics

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• There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Art, Winning, Jiu Jitsu

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• Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Jiu Jitsu, Efficiency

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• Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Play, Doe

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• I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Opponents, Defeat

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• To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Order, Practice

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• Heart and mind overcome all.

  Dan Henderson

  Art, Mma, Mind

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• You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

  Greg Jackson

  Art, Workout, Suffering

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• The big, strong, tough guy goes to class, and he keeps getting tapped by the skinny, technical guy. It begins to change him. It makes him humble. That's what Jiu Jitsu does to you. It makes you humble.

  Relson Gracie

  Art, Strong, Humble

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• Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength.

  Kano Jigoro

  Spiritual, Art, Use

  "Dynamic Judo". Book by Kazuzo Kudo, 1967.

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