Martial Arts Quotes - Page 11

• Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

  Jet Li

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

  Jet Li

  Art, Drama, People

  "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Football, Winning

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

  David Mamet

  Art, World, Invention

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• A true champion can adapt to anything.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Champion, True Champion

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

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• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

  John Milton

  Powerful, Military, War

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 648

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• I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

  Chuck Norris

  Determination, Accomplish Your Goals, Overcoming

  "The Elephant And The Twig: The Art of Positive Thinking". Book by Geoff Thompson, 2007.

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• Never fight an inanimate object.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Life, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.189, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Warrior, Attachment, Life And Death

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Everyday, True Beauty

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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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• Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

  Andrew Davidson

  Pain, Lessons, Teach

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.373, Anchor

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• I personally hated working out when I first started, but then I noticed it was the one thing I did for myself. It gave me more energy and made me feel more confident. I started rolling with it. I love going for jogs and walks in the morning with my cousin. Sometimes we do sunrise walks where we'll be up before the sun comes up and by the time it does we're up and going. It's really nice. I also started training MMA, mixed martial arts to keep it fun. It's stress relieving.

  Becky G

  Art, Cousin, Morning

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

  Royce Gracie

  Art, Giving, Chance

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• Heart and mind overcome all.

  Dan Henderson

  Art, Mma, Mind

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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Athlete, Power

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

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• Blood is just red sweat.

  Enson Inoue

  Art, Blood, Mma

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• Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.

  Enson Inoue

  Art, Warrior, Samurai

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• You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

  Greg Jackson

  Art, Workout, Suffering

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• The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Perfect, Purpose

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• Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength.

  Kano Jigoro

  Spiritual, Art, Use

  "Dynamic Judo". Book by Kazuzo Kudo, 1967.

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• In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Principles, Opponents

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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