Martial Arts Quotes - Page 5

• 1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

  Mas Oyama

  Art, Black, Students

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• Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Children, Book

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• A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, School, Korea

  "Chuck Norris: Against All Odds". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Courage, Fear, Brave Face

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.124, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.

  Ma Yueliang

  Perseverance, Art, Years

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• Boards don't hit back.

  Bruce Lee

  Boards

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.38, Tuttle Publishing

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• There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, School, Men

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• The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Opportunity, Expression

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• To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Cocky

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• Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Hands, Killing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.267, Penguin

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• There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Art, Watching Tv

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• Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Art, Fall, Thinking

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• Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Art, Sweat, Desire

  "Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game". Book by Larry W. Phillips, 1999.

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• Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Philosophy, Hands

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• Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air.

  Robin Williams

  Art, Children, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Daniel Hillard". "Mrs. Doubtfire", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.

  Chuck Norris

  Motivational, Kids, Use

  "Chuck Norris Interview — Las Vegas 1999". Interview with Geoff Thompson, magazine.fighttimes.com. April 01, 2005.

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• It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

  Ralph Maxwell

  Art, Junk, Disease

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• Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

  Donnie Yen

  Motivational, Time, Men

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• To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve to remind one to place virtue before vice, values before vanity and principles before personalities.

  Matsumura Sokon

  Spiritual, Art, Humility

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• Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, People, Kung Fu

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• A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Beautiful, Art, Fighting

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• You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

  Jet Li

  Art, Dragons, Different

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• Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Art, Being Afraid

  "Is the American Right ready for Rudy?" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2007.

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