Martial Arts Quotes - Page 25

• As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

  Chris Daughtry

  Art, Kids, Next

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

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• With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Moving, Inspire

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• Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you're working out, you're going to feel good.

  Jason Statham

  Hands, Work Out, Feel Good

  "Jason Statham Is Not a Badass". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Believe, Eye, People

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• I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Dream, Reality, America

  "Jean-Claude Van Damme Re-Evaluates Career: 'I Will Never Do Another Movie I Would Not Like'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2008.

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• You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Wall, Perfect, Pushing

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  Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fear

  "Fictional character: Cypher Raige". "After Earth", www.imdb.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and ballet, and I'm very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.

  Anna Paquin

  Sports, Art, Fun

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• I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

  Jason Ritter

  Art, Skills, Special

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• I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

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• The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Mastery, Emptiness

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

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• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  Bruce Lee

  Truth, Giving, Choices

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

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• Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Athletic

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• All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Deception

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Artist, Quality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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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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• Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Fighting, Pride

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, Tuttle Publishing

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• The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

  Bruce Lee

  Pain, Alive, Feels

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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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• Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

  Mary Hart

  Art, Office, Boxes

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• My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

  Miguel Torres

  Art, Strong, Killers

  FaceBook post by Miguel Angel Torres from Oct 12, 2010

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• Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

  Miguel Torres

  Art, Jobs, Mma

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• Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

  Mike Tyson

  Art, Winning, Mma

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