While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
Being Bruce Lee’s kid, everyone wants you to be an action-film star. I took martial arts, and it’s fun to do those types of movies, but I wanted to act, not fight.
I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in ‘EA Sports MMA’ because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.
I’m a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
Definitely female MMA fighters, I’m a big mixed martial arts fan, and watching women’s MMA grow was definitely an inspiration. We just had an idea for a character and wanted to do a personality that was the opposite of Aang’s, and that’s how Korra came about.
In the beginning of your mixed martial arts career, you’re not making good money.
The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father’s belief of self-actualization.
When it comes to martial arts, I always feel hungry.
I grew up doing martial arts, and I’m a second-degree black belt.
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.
Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It’s very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
Some of the things I’ve had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don’t make you a great fighter, but fighting – or, I should say, martial arts – helps you overcome your obstacles.
Once you are trained in the international martial arts, your body and mind become toned permanently. You can take on any action role.
It was ‘Shaolin Temple,’ Jet Li’s first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
I think a lot of people don’t realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It’s just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.
If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it’s very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I’m not supposed to.
Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building character.
I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
You’re never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it’s like, ‘I’m an artist, I’m trying to grow. I don’t want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!’ Same thing for a martial artist.
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
If you want to see great mixed martial arts, tune in when I fight. If you want to see drama and all of that stuff, you guys can go watch ‘Bachelors in Paradise.’ They’ll give you enough drama you can want to watch.
I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.
A lot of people think martial arts are just fighting, but it’s character-building, too, and I want to give back.
I enjoy martial arts. I love to compete, I love to be at the top. I mean that’s why I started in this… I want to let people known what the Lord blessed me with. He changed my circumstances and brought it to an amazing place. And continues to do so.
I don’t care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial arts promotion.
I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.
I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the Bruce Lee movies.
The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing ‘Drunken Master,’ and, like, Snake versus this and that.
Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.
I had to learn martial arts.
I’ve been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.
I’d like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!
I’ve done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It’s a big part of mixed martial arts.
From getting good grades when I was growing up to finishing college to respecting my elders to the discipline that I have – everything can go back to martial arts.
I’ve made up my mind. I’ll take my court martial.
When I do martial arts, I feel like its inward facing. Like, I’m improving myself, I’m getting healthier. It’s almost like mindfulness for something.
I did some martial arts training for ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ since the character was an assassin.
I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It’s because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about… everything.
I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn’t have much connection with the outside world and couldn’t see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that’s when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.
I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North – a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.
Of course we’ve been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That’s the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes – waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
I’ve always been interested in martial arts.
I have made movies on education and dance, have directed and choreographed legends of Bollywood. Now, I want to make a movie on martial arts. I myself am a black belt, so I am looking forward to do something on this.
You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren’t mature enough to handle it.
I’m a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what happens your life.
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
Mario Yamasaki should just crawl in a hole and never step inside of any type of professional mixed martial arts event. He should never officiate, ever again.
I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe – tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It’s always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
Mixed martial arts is great, and it’s here to stay.
I have a passion for martial arts and it’s a part of my life.
Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It’s a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box… but in an actual physical fight against someone who’s just a wrestler, you’re going to get killed.
Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.
It’s a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion.
I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.
