Martial Arts Quotes - Page 23

• The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Self, Guy

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

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

  Bruce Lee

  Optimism, Martial Arts Inspirational, Dissolving

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wrestling, Men, Thinking

  "How to Make Money With Real Estate Options: Low-Cost, Low-Risk, High-Profit Strategies for Controlling Undervalued Property....Without the Burdens of Ownership!". Book by Thomas Lucier, 2005.

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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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• I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

  Brad Tavares

  Sports, Art, Kids

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

  Bas Rutten

  Art, Mean, Winning

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• Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

  Michael Jai White

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

  Michael Jai White

  Art, Character, Fighting

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• Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

  Taylor Lautner

  Art, Boxing, Structure

  "Taylor Lautner Talks ABDUCTION and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN". Press conference, collider.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I have a martial arts background and I'm very athletic. So I think if I can find a film where a female is a badass in it - that would just be amazing. They are sometimes hard to find, but I definitely want to do something like that.

  Ashley Greene

  Art, Badass, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Ashley Greene Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, LOL, THE APPARITION, Bill Condon and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sports, Football, Art

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• When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.

  Rain

  Art, Powerful, Hero

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• In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.

  Jet Li

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

  "Rogue' Set Visit: Jet Li on 'Fearless,' 'Monk in New York,' and Another Fight Breakdown!". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. June 9, 2006.

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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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• Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines.

  Chuck Liddell

  Art, Fighting, Train Hard

  "Chuck Liddell UFC 115 Interview". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. June 10, 2010.

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• As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

  Jose Parla

  Beautiful, Art, New York

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

  Hiromi

  Art, Thinking, Focus

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• I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

  Laz Alonso

  Artist, Work Out, Style

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

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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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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Strong

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• I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Art, Strong, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that a lot of people who like training with guns are probably drawn to it not only for practical reasons, but also in that same restless quest for physical excellence that draws people to a martial arts dojo.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Art, Gun, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Giving

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• I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Art, Feel Good, Done

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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