A Quote by Bruce Lee

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

Bruce Lee

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Bruce Lee
American - Actor
November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

Bruce Lee

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

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

Leo Howard

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

Bruce Lee

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

Scott Coker

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

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

Jet Li

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

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.

Jet Li

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

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

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.