Quotes About Learning Martial Arts

#1. 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.

Jet Li

#2. 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.

Kelly Hu

#3. 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

#4. A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

Ip Chun

#5. I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Jet Li

#6. When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

Jonathan Maberry

#7. We are not practicing Jiu Jitsu to learn how to fight, we are learning how to live.

Chris Matakas

#8. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

Chris Matakas

#9. The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set.

Chris Matakas

#10. He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

Josh Waitzkin

#11. There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.

Chris Matakas

#12. Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish.

Chris Matakas

#13. We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

Chris Matakas

#14. For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#15. I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

Traci Bingham

#16. Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man.

Chris Matakas

#17. I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

Chris Matakas

#18. My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

Georges St-Pierre

#19. Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.

Chris Matakas

#20. True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful.

Chris Matakas

#21. We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#22. I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

Donnie Yen

#23. An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.

Chris Matakas

#24. I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education.

Chris Matakas