Martial Arts Quotes - Page 30

• Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Clever, Moving

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• It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Numbers, Substance

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• The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Children, School

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• I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

  Jon Jones

  Athlete, Artist, Martial Artist

  "Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

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• I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Eye, Two

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• Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

  Akshay Kumar

  Art, Loss, Practice

  "Akshay Kumar talks Martial Arts, 25 years of Bollywood and Brothers!". Urban Asian Interview, urbanasian.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

  Akshay Kumar

  Art, Watches, Wonderful

  "Interview: Akshay Kumar talks Martial Arts, 25 years of Bollywood and Brothers!". Urban Asian interview, urbanasian.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Do nothing which is of no use.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.31, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

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• I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Thinking, Our Generation

  Source: www.ign.com

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• And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introduce - the idea of spirituality and the idea of there being something else out in the world besides people who are great fighters.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way to achieve the authentic Hong Kong martial arts we need a full-time fight team unit working concurrently, and we're hiring a Chinese fight team from Hong Kong. And they were like, "Great, let's go."

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Team, Mean

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Growing Up, Artist, Fans

  "Georges St-Pierre On Training". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

  Leo Howard

  Art, Different, Done

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• Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

  Leo Howard

  Art, Acting, Doe

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• I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

  Leo Howard

  Art, Passion, Would Be

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• I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Artist, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Pain, Fighting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

  Dan Millman

  Giving Up, Warrior, Doe

  "Peaceful Warrior". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

  Rick Yune

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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

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• When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Trying, Saying No

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• When weak or injured always continue training as you should always be able to adapt in any condition.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Training, Able, Weak

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• It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it or get it. They didn't understand or have a knowledge of what we were trying to do. Bringing in the Asian martial arts aesthetic to American television. For us, these are the people who will make the show a hit or a failure in future seasons. So it's for us to respect them and interact and see what they have to say.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

  Ken Blanchard

  Business, Learning, Science

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2015

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• The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Hero

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