Taekwondo Quotes

• Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

  Duk Sung Son

  Art, Black, Training

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• Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

  Choi Hong Hi

  Art, Pain, Class

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• When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.

  Anthony Pettis

  Dad, Self, Skills

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Lying, Character, Perfection

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• In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.

  Pom Klementieff

  Running, Yoga, Everyday

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

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• I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

  Mackenzie Foy

  Sometimes, Paint

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

  Dev Patel

  Eight, Years, Training

  "One last thing... Dev Patel". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. August 06, 2010.

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• I used to take taekwondo and made it to brown belt.

  Stacey King

  Used, Made, Brown

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• I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Later In Life, Training, Nine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Expression

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• Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

  Jay Lake

  Sex, Writing, Guitar

  Interview with Patrick Wolohan, www.sfsignal.com. August 24, 2009.

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• I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

  Diana Lopez

  Brother, Thinking, Champion

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• I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.

  Robbie Lawler

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

  JWoww

  Basketball, Softball, Art

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• I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Fun, Done

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

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• The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Strange Places, Class

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• I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

  Lucas Till

  Dad, Kids, Years

  Source: collider.com

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