Top 100 Quotes About Martial
#1. When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Jackie Chan
#2. There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
William Cowper
#3. The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
Martial
#4. The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.
Miyamoto Musashi
#5. Each person may see a fight in different ways ... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way ... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.
Roger Gracie
#6. I watch mostly every martial arts movie ... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.
Tony Jaa
#8. Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.
Jake Shimabukuro
#9. There are no shortcuts because there is no end
Kyuzo Mifune
#10. We need to remember that the primary goal of Aikido is harmony and good relations between people. If we don't cultivate a harmonious heart along with technical skill, there will be a lack of integration in our practice, which will show up in behavior off the mat.
Linda Holiday
#11. I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
Dolph Lundgren
#12. I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.
Kurt Angle
#13. 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
#14. 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.
Donnie Yen
#15. In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train.
Jose Pablo Cantillo
#16. You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
Jet Li
#17. Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.
Gerald Celente
#18. For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here.
James S.A. Corey
#19. We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.
Grace Lee Boggs
#20. If cunnilingus was a martial art, I'd wear my black belt with pride.
Jodi Knight
#21. 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.
Stephen Rodrick
#22. The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them
Miyamoto Musashi
#23. Only hardness or only softness creates an inability to deal effectively with the fluctuations of life.
Seikichi Toguchi
#24. Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.
Chris Matakas
#25. To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.
Bruce Lee
#26. I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.
Conor McGregor
#28. Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized one another from a mere turn of the head observed from hundreds of yards away on a moonless night in January.
Robin Oliveira
#29. Sod it. If he laid a finger on my David, I'd just have to use my newfound martial arts mojo and kick him in the Knuts.
J.L. Merrow
#30. The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
William Sanderson
#31. She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
Martial
#32. Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
Bruce Lee
#33. Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.
Christian Tissier
#34. Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.
Chris Matakas
#35. A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.
Duane Ludwig
#36. The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
Bridges McCall
#37. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#38. When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
Jackie Chan
#39. 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.
Mako
#40. I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.
Sung Hi Lee
#41. We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll.
Chris Matakas
#43. Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
Martial
#44. You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
Martial
#45. Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.
Taylor Lautner
#46. I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.
Frederick Lenz
#47. I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Lou Reed
#48. I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us.
Chris Matakas
#49. I studied martial arts before I studied dance.
Robert Battle
#50. Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.
Bill Engvall
#51. most widespread gains in brain training come from programs that simultaneously address multiple aspects of a person, such as traditional martial arts training and enriched school curricula.
Scott Barry Kaufman
#52. 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
#53. There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.
Eoin Colfer
#54. I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
Natalia Tena
#55. I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
Bruce Lee
#56. The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush
#57. Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.
Bruce Lee
#58. The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
Neil Young
#59. I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
Joe Rogan
#60. Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.
Michael Jai White
#61. I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.
Dolph Lundgren
#62. I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I
Talisa Soto
#63. Simplicity itself is the key. Education in ballet, dance, martial arts, etc., is done through poses, or to be more precise, through a countless series of poses. Perfection of movement is achieved through the flow of perfectly rehearsed poses.
Nicholas Romanov
#64. They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
Martial
#65. A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and
Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
Martial
#66. O-Sensei was frequently head to say. 'Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to harmonize the world and make humanity one family.
Linda Holiday
#67. Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
Martial
#68. Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
Donnie Yen
#69. 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.
Joe Rogan
#70. I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.
Jason Statham
#71. Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
Milla Jovovich
#72. That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
Martial
#73. We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge.
Chris Matakas
#74. I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
Kari Matchett
#75. I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
Katheryn Winnick
#76. As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
Steven Seagal
#77. But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
Meredith Baxter
#78. A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.
Michael Gerber
#79. 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
#80. I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
Pierre Bourdieu
#81. Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.
Mas Oyama
#82. I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
Tami Hoag
#83. There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
Martial
#84. Human nature is martial and this trait cannot be eradicated, since it is innate.
Guillaume Faye
#85. Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
Martial
#86. The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.
Joe Rogan
#87. My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.
E.L. James
#88. 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.
Michael Dirda
#89. Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don't drink or smoke.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#90. It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz Kafka
#91. The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
Martial
#92. My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
Akshay Kumar
#93. Okay boy's and girls, let's learn how to fight. -Sergeant Til
C.D. Sutherland
#94. It's a compassionate reaction that all testicles have for fellow testicles being whacked, kicked or ripped to shreds by footballs, martial arts students or dead palm frond stubs, respectively.
Bill Kasal
#95. The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.
Jacques Antoine
#96. Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
Taisen Deshimaru
#97. Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#98. I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.
Ricardo Mayorga
#99. I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
Mencius
#100. I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
Martial
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