A Quote by Ed Parker

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

Ed Parker

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Ed Parker
American - Athlete
March 19, 1931 - December 15, 1990

Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.

Tsutomu Ohshima

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

Scott Coker

I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.

Michelle Waterson

True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

Gerald May

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

Neil Young

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

Duane Ludwig

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

Kanye West

I don't believe that Dana White is a martial artist. I don't see a martial way that he is following.

Frank Shamrock

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

Lynn Collins

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

I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as a martial artist, and as a martial artist, it's what I always wanted to do - test myself and always fighting. It's what I'm meant to do.

Anderson Silva

Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I'm not a mixed martial artist, I'm a brawler.

Derrick Lewis

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.

Joseph Benavidez

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Louis de Bernieres

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.