Top 300 Martial Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Martial Quotes from famous people such as Frank Mir, Rick Yune, Yvonne Strahovski, Raj Kundra, Scott Coker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I didn't have anything to prove to begin with to anybod

I didn’t have anything to prove to begin with to anybody else. I didn’t start out doing this because I wanted to win awards or titles. I like martial arts, I like training, I like the lifestyle.
Frank Mir
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you’re this martial arts expert, but really I’m just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
Rick Yune
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I’d never held one before and I’m physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
Yvonne Strahovski
MMA is a full contact sport, a kind of an organized street fight, which uses both striking and grappling techniques and involves 36 different martial arts.
Raj Kundra
When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.
Scott Coker
I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.
Georges St-Pierre
It’s my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts’ training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
Akshay Kumar
My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help others. I’m also trying to make history in mixed martial arts and become known as the best 135-pound fighter to ever compete.
Dominick Cruz
I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: ‘Hey, if I like it, everyone’s gonna like it.’ Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.
Bill Goldberg
In my research, I learned that the Boxers’ kung fu wasn’t all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn’t belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.
Gene Luen Yang
There’s a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect.
Eddie Alvarez
I used to love martial arts movies starring Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. In one of Van Damme’s movies, he would break a pine tree. I would kick banana trees because I used to live on a farm. My father would get mad at me because I would break all of the banana trees around.
Glover Teixeira
As I grew older, I realised that Bruce Lee was an actor first and a martial artist second. If he wasn’t a convincing actor and didn’t have the emotion in his eyes before delivering a kick or a punch, it wouldn’t have made that much of an impact.
Tiger Shroff
Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.
Rashad Evans
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.
Charles Wolfe
I’ve been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
Daniella Alonso
I don’t get to do a lot of fight scenes on ‘Sanctuary,’ but I’m a trained fighter; I’ve been doing martial arts for years and, you know, I’m very active physically; I used to be a circus performer.
Ryan Robbins
I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.
Dolph Lundgren
I’ve been able to mature and improve my mixed martial arts game completely; I just never stop learning, and whenever I think I know enough, I just keep working and do more.
Tito Ortiz
I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who’s who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.
Michael Jai White
Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are so, so good at what they do in the mixed martial arts game.
Carlos Condit
I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
Chris Daughtry
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
Lou Reed
I’m told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, ‘A martial art, a full contact sport.’
Carmen Marton
People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I’ve kept that philosophy as the focal point of what I do.
Samoa Joe
I actually did a lot of yoga because I found it helped with my core strength and flexibility, which are two things you absolutely need when you’re doing martial arts.
Esme Creed-Miles
Different martial arts have ways of showing you how to control an opponent and put him down, but jiu-jitsu is the king of how to finish somebody. And that’s what I love about it.
Frank Mir
All through college, I did a lot of break-dancing and all kinds of different martial arts.
John Morrison
Obviously, learning the martial arts is a big part of my training, but the other part of being a Marvel superhero is, well, looking like a superhero.
Simu Liu
I kind of did mixed martial arts as a hobby. At the time I was actually wanting to become a police officer as I was working in a hospital as a security job in Michigan. It was something I did in my off time.
Rashad Evans
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
Cameron Monaghan
My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' t

My father watched all the ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.
Rick Ross
My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.
Will Yun Lee
When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
Jet Li
That’s the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts – and I’ll tell people that – you have to think outside of the box.
Demetrious Johnson
A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn’t worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
Pink
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Karate is my main martial art; that is what I train in every day. It has always been in my life. Sumo is another Japanese martial art that I got into at an early age. It is something that has helped and added to my overall stance and is a good base. It is not something I necessarily use in all my fights, though.
Lyoto Machida
I’m a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.
Lynn Collins
A lot of wrestlers get guys to the ground in a mixed martial arts fight and think that’s it. But no, we gotta get up eventually and throw some blows.
Bob Sapp
I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.
Michelle Yeoh
When learning boxing and martial arts, there wasn’t any fakery in my training. When teaching you the basics of fighting, even though it’s faked for the camera, they teach you to do it for real.
Tom Payne
Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it’s an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that’s a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.
Wong Kar-wai
My time of martial arts was traditional.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
I’m training in martial arts. It’s a whole new world for me and I’m loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.
Zawe Ashton
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
Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts.
Frank Shamrock
What mixed martial arts is being marketed as is not the truth. We’re not a bunch of idiots in a cage drinking beer all the time. It’s a lifestyle, but it’s a positive lifestyle.
Frank Shamrock
I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I’ve never used it, and I had to stop when I got ‘Instant Star’ because I couldn’t train.
Laura Vandervoort
Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.
Ann Nocenti
I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.
Antony Starr
I’ve been training mixed martial arts and kickboxing so I think that will give me better overall conditioning to become a world champion.
Bob Sapp
I’m a martial artist. That’s what I’ve been doing since I was three years old, and fighting since i was 15 and that’s all I know how to do. The money is just a bonus. It’s a bonus for me. I think my real job is teaching martial arts, it’s what I love to do.
Stephen Thompson
Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.
Chuck Norris
In musical theatre you’re also supposed to be able to dance and everything, so I’ve always tried to take dance lessons, but I’ve realized that martial arts comes to me so much more easily than dancing ever has.
Isa Briones
I love to learn, and that’s the really cool thing about martial arts – you’re always learning new things.
Rose Namajunas
I don’t watch TV. Only while I’m doing it do I see it, really. So I don’t know anything. I only know old reggae artists. So that’s my thing. Old reggae artists and martial arts.
Greg Cipes