Martial Artist Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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• The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

  Neil Young

  Strong, Artist, Yield

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• To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• The best part of falling is getting back up again.

  David Belle

  Fall, Getting Back Up, Parkour

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• Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.

  Roger Gracie

  Art, Fighting, Mma

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• There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Artist, Differences

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• I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Hurt, Fighting, Artist

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

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• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Artist, Sometimes

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• I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Flower, Roots

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Causes, Happens

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• A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

  Duane Ludwig

  Book, Artist, Mma

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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• I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Artist

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• The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

  Rickson Gracie

  Artist, Mma, Martial Arts

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

  Jon Jones

  Athlete, Artist, Martial Arts

  "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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• In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

  Jackie Chan

  Artist, Views, Female

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• I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

  Cung Le

  Artist, Way, Martial Arts

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

  Lynn Collins

  Artist, Parent, Martial Arts

  "Lynn Collins JOHN CARTER Set Visit Interview". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

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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 do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Senior, Mom, Friday

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• I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living

  Georges St-Pierre

  Jobs, Wrestling, Artist

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• I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Writing, Artist, Guy

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• The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring,
  surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him.
  More than delivering strikes and slashes,
  and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need
  while making the world a better place.
  
  The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Art, Winning, Simple

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• I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

  Cub Swanson

  Believe, Heart, Men

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