Top 80 Karate Quotes

Everyone saw my karate stance against Ben Henderson and Daniel Straus. I pretty much wasn’t hit in those fights, and my attacks were almost 100 percent accurate.

I was told that karate has a courtesy: ‘Start with a bow and end with a bow.’ This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine – gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I’ve never been good with following lessons.

I believe that God gave us gifts to help serve Him and He gave me the gift. I’m a people person. I’m also an instructor at Upstate Karate, but I’ve got the gift of fight, man. After every fight, I try to give all the glory to Him. I believe He gave us, like I said, the abilities to do that.

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

I quit karate originally because it wasn’t something that I was initially passionate about.

MMA is a full combat sport comprising 36 different styles of fighting including karate, judo and kung-fu.

I’m quite strong for a girl. I studied karate growing up – I’m a brown belt – and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other.

I started doing karate when I was 11.

I was in ‘The Outsiders,’ which was a good launching pad for me, but ‘The Karate Kid’ sent me into a different stratosphere.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

Elvis was a seventh-degree black belt in karate. My dad knew that he couldn’t dance like Elvis or sing like him, but he thought maybe he could try karate, and he fell in love with it.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

With ‘The Karate Kid’ especially, there’s been so many references and visual images from that film, you know? Who knew that ‘Wax on, wax off’ would become part of the American lexicon?

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.

Prior to ‘The Karate Kid’, I did commercials – Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk – and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

My parents split up when I was nine years old, and I started taking karate lessons at that point. I was very dedicated to my karate, and I looked up to my karate instructor kind of like a second father.

From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.

I’m a soccer mom. I’m T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I’m at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with ‘Mr. Roboto’ on our Walkmans, ‘The Karate Kid’ in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for ‘storm sewer’ and ‘dishwasher.’

I did a bit of karate – I’m a blackbelt – so I know how to move.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and life philosophy. As I became more interested in martial arts, he started teaching a lot of fighting philosophy and karate philosophy. While he was a tough father, he also knew when to be sweet and show a softer side.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.

Cinematically speaking, there’s more of a striking appeal to karate. It’s kicking and punching action. Jiu-jitsu is dudes rolling around and wrestling.

My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world’s top fighters. I then held that title until 1974, when I retired undefeated.

I go through life like a Karate Kid.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

I’m a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.

If you look at a lot of the best kicking footwork in the sport, karate has a huge influence. You can’t be effective with it if you don’t apply it correctly, however. You look at Conor McGregor, who is known for his boxing, but when I watch him fight I see a lot of karate movement with how he goes in and out.

I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I’m adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

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.

I’m awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

The thing about mixed martial arts is you have to know every single martial art in the world or you’re at a disadvantage. So, there’s so much to learn. I have to know wrestling. I have to know kick boxing. I have to know boxing. I have to know karate.

I never was able to do karate. That’s calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

My karate skills are very limited. I’m a green belt.

I did karate for years and years and years.

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the ’60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It’s part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That was the original draw behind the sport. That’s what caught everybody’s attention.

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it’s really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

So if they happen to be over the age of 35 and they’re male? They’re probably going to recognize me from ‘The Karate Kid Part II.’

There’s a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it’s just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

I’ve always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in high school. To me, it was just an evolution and mixed martial arts was the next step. I just wanted to compete and train in it. I had no illusions of it being a paying gig.

I think I only went to college because it was close to the karate school.

I don’t like creating software anymore. It’s too exact. It’s like karate; there’s no room for error.

I was a complete unknown when I did ‘Karate Kid.’ I’d just done a pilot for a TV show called ‘Call to Glory.’ And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would’ve been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

I’m a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I’m a licensed bodyguard.

I got my black belt First Dan at the age of 12 and I was the youngest in my training centre. I practised karate till a few years ago and it has helped enhance my flexibility, stamina and mental toughness.