Martial Arts Quotes - Page 33

• For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

  Ricardo Liborio

  Art, Humble, Forward In Life

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• It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it or get it. They didn't understand or have a knowledge of what we were trying to do. Bringing in the Asian martial arts aesthetic to American television. For us, these are the people who will make the show a hit or a failure in future seasons. So it's for us to respect them and interact and see what they have to say.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way to achieve the authentic Hong Kong martial arts we need a full-time fight team unit working concurrently, and we're hiring a Chinese fight team from Hong Kong. And they were like, "Great, let's go."

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Team, Mean

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introduce - the idea of spirituality and the idea of there being something else out in the world besides people who are great fighters.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Thinking, Our Generation

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because that's kind of the genre we're paying tribute to, so there are some similarities to a lot of films, because they all feed off each other!

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Want

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so fun. It's like dancing, but more bad-ass. I really enjoy doing it.

  Caity Lotz

  Fun, Fighting, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Clever, Moving

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• It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Numbers, Substance

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

  Jon Jones

  Athlete, Artist, Martial Artist

  "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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• Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

  Akshay Kumar

  Art, Loss, Practice

  "Akshay Kumar talks Martial Arts, 25 years of Bollywood and Brothers!". Urban Asian Interview, urbanasian.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

  Akshay Kumar

  Art, Watches, Wonderful

  "Interview: Akshay Kumar talks Martial Arts, 25 years of Bollywood and Brothers!". Urban Asian interview, urbanasian.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Be happy, but never satisfied.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mma

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• Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Talent

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.31, Penguin

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• The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

  Confucius

  Cat, Dark, Black

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• Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dream, Real, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Humility, Justice, Mind

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• People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

  Christian Tissier

  People, Feels, Happens

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

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• Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.

  Thomas Ian Griffith

  Art, Kids, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

  Muhammad Ali

  Skills, Boxing, Champion

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2011

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• I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

  Archilochus

  Art, Hurt, Warrior

  "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.

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• Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, Warrior, Crafts

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My health has benefited the most from practising Wing Chun.

  Ip Chun

  Art, Wings, Wing Chun

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• Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

  Urijah Faber

  Dream, Art, Passion

  FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Jul 30, 2013

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• I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

  Ryron Gracie

  Art, Fighting, Jiu Jitsu

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