Top 310 Martial Arts Quotes

I hope I set an example to motivate people, to motivate the new fighters, motivate the guy who doesn’t got to the gym who doesn’t train martial arts because he has a knee injury or some little things.

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.

In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

Besides working out for nearly six hours a day, I am also learning different forms of martial arts.

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

I was always into martial arts and boxing.

I’ve been learning martial arts – nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided – but basic exercises.

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

SFL is based on the Mixed Martial Arts. It is a proper sport with proper set of rules and regulations. There is no scope of stage-managing the things.

People don’t get it. Martial arts is my life.

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building character.

The first martial arts movie I ever watched was this old Chinese film called ‘Five Deadly Venoms.’ I was seven years old. My dad and I were sitting in front of the TV on the floor in our living room.

I’m always involved with training and the martial arts. It’s not like I go to a desk job somewhere and then throw on the gloves.

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

For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

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.

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!

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don’t forget everything you’ve done. You build on it, but it’s always there.

I’m a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

I started this martial arts journey 20 years ago with karate, and I never imagined it would come to pass that I would be in the UFC.

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.

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.

Nobody talked a lot in Japan, but I always had a good relationship with everyone. I always liked to talk with Anderson. He has always been very respectful because he’s a student of the martial arts.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

I did some martial arts training for ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ since the character was an assassin.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

I had a few months of physical prep where I was training six hours a day – I was doing an hour and a bit of yoga, I would do a couple hours of cardio and weight-lifting, and then I would do an hour or maybe two of martial arts training.

I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I’ve got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there’s always new faces coming through, so it’s easy to forget you.

I’m very well-rounded. It’s mixed martial arts.

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.

Anyone can get beaten in mixed martial arts. It’s the nature of the sport.

I thought, ‘If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that’d sure be a lot of fun.’

This is mixed martial arts, so you have to be good at everything.

I know what martial arts have done for me. They’ve taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit.

I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me, is my lifestyle, my religion, my philosophy… Martial arts are everything for me.

Martial arts was founded on the spirit that it’s not only a sport, but a way of life.

I love to fight. Keeping me at home without a fight is the same to offer candy to a kid and then take it away. That’s why I’m always competing in other martial arts. That keeps me motivated to train and helps me learn even more.

Sonnen doesn’t know martial arts. He’s a wrestler; he doesn’t know how to respect people. Some say he’s promoting the fight, but he disrespected my country, my family and fans.

I’ve been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.

I teach mixed martial arts and I am having a gala time running a school dedicated to it.

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it’s your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

I have this unbeatable move where no matter what happens I can catch the line – it’s the number one thing I practice – so my philosophy there is martial arts based, never putting myself in a position where I can receive a lethal blow. I haven’t missed catching the line for over fifteen years.

I love dancing and outdoor activities. I like going to the gym, trying different routines of fitness – kickboxing, martial arts. I try to do a bit of everything so I make it exciting for myself and so there are no shockers for my body.

I’ve been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

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.

I’ve done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I’ve also practiced extreme martial arts.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

The Japanese people treated me very well. They appreciated how I considered the martial arts, the jiu-jitsu and judo. There’s some good points and bad points to fight there. The distance was too far from where I used to live in Brazil. It was a 27-hour flight.

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.

You don’t ‘practice’ martial arts; it’s more like a way of life.

Martial arts is self-growth. It’s artistic impression. It’s self-defense… it doesn’t have any place in politics.

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.

Was I a Jackie Chan-level martial arts master? Absolutely not! Not by any stretch of the imagination. I’m an actor. I’m a performer.