Martial Arts Quotes - Page 32

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

  Luke Rockhold

  Art, Mma, Way

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• Always be able to kill your students

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Able, Students

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• Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sleep, Men, President

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Treat everyone with love and respect because they are your brother or your sister.

  Ryron Gracie

  Art, Brother, Love And Respect

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• When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

  Ryron Gracie

  Art, Teaching, Training

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• War, the World's Only Hygiene

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Art, War, Hygiene

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1998). “Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel”

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• Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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• Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Health

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• I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Art, Gun, Able

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

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• Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fighting, Warrior, Looks

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• If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.

  Kano Jigoro

  Accomplishment, Effort, Judo

  "Black Belt: Judo Skills and Techniques". Book by Neil Ohlenkamp, p. 36, 2006.

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• Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Experts, Doe

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• Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, War, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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  The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Crazy, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, CreateSpace

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• See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Determination, Eye, Warrior

  "Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think". Book by Forrest E. Morgan, p. 88, 1992.

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• Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Choices, Patriotism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Effectiveness, Water, Cracks

  "Fear Vs. Faith". Book by Wade Rich, 2012.

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• I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

  Kelly Hu

  Art, Ideas, Karate

  "Kelly Hu's Ninja Bad Girl Joins Tonight's 'TMNT'". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. February 01, 2013.

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• I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

  Terence Stamp

  Art, Years, Fundamentals

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• 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Art, Buddhist, Philosophy

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• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  Sam Rockwell

  Art, Character, Training

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• I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

  Jet Li

  Art, Thinking, Years

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

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• I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

  Gail Porter

  Art, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts

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• It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, Fool, Selflessness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Self, Progress, Realization

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