Martial Arts Quotes - Page 21

• Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

  Christian Tissier

  Art, Stronger

  "Interview with Christian Tissier Shihan: Aikido as an education system". Interview with Guillaume Erard and Ivan Bel, www.guillaumeerard.com. February 2, 2008.

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• One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

  Christian Tissier

  Art, Aim, Suppression

  "Interview with Christian Tissier Shihan: Aikido as an education system". Interview with Guillaume Erard, Ivan Bel, www.guillaumeerard.com. February 2, 2008.

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• Im an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

  JWoww

  Art, Children, Father

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• When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless..." But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Guy, Directors

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

  Laozi

  Art

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• Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Warrior, Light

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Aikido

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• Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.

  Chris Weidman

  Art, Thinking, Goal

  FaceBook post by Chris Weidman from Apr 06, 2013

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• When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Art, Mistake, Positive Thinking

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• Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Running, Art, Water

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• To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life are endless, and you cannot be prepared for every single thing. Therefore it's better to be able to move in a natural way, and not even physically but intuitively.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Moving, Different

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• The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Humility, Warrior

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• If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Fighting, Training

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• If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

  Randy Couture

  Art, Fighting, Losing

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• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, Military, War

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

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• I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

  Barry Pepper

  Baseball, Football, Volleyball

  Source: collider.com

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own.

  Tatchakorn Yeerum

  Motivational, Art, Moving

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

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• I haven't placed any limits on myself

  Randy Couture

  Motivational, Art, Limits

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• Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

  Jet Li

  Motivational, Art, Thinking

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• A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.

  Chotoku Kyan

  Treasure, Karate, Used

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• The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Strong, Giving

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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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• Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

  Chael Sonnen

  Art, Fighting, Expression

  "Chael Sonnen on the importance of promotion and why to never say, 'I'll fight whoever the UFC wants'". Interview with Shaun Al-Shatti, www.mmafighting.com. October 5, 2013.

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• I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

  Uriah Hall

  Art, Mma, World

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