Top 1200 Black Belt Quotes & Sayings

I'm the first American black belt under Renzo Gracie.

If you want the belt, you've got to fight everybody that lines up in front of you. You have to prove yourself by beating them anyways, so what does it matter if you beat them before you have the belt or after you have the belt?

A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.

A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

By the time I was 17 years old, I already had my black belt.

I want the belt. I'm focused on the belt, I'm focused on the world championship belt.

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

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 was not a fashionista. I played Division I basketball. I'm a black belt in karate.

I would say to the critics that they don't have a black belt in time management like I do.

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt.

I never wear a black belt with a black shoe. It's always the opposite: a brown shoe with a black belt.

A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude. Even though surrounded By several enemies set to attack, Fight with the thought That they are but one.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

Alabama's Black Belt region played a central role in both the history of our great state and our country. We cannot lose sight of the Black Belt's significant impact in the civil rights movement and the fact that this area is home to some of our state's most celebrated cultural figures.

You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.

The WWE belt means nothing; it means absolutely nothing. They pass around that belt like a hot potato. I probably have a neighbor on my block who held that belt at one point. There is no prestige to that belt whatsoever.

I'm a second-degree black belt.

Before the bell you fellow your family's name. Carrying the belt doesn't change me as a person. But I want to represent myself well. Some people want to show off their belt - but I'm not into that nonsense. I am who I am with or without the belt.

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

The destination is the belt, but you never arrive at just the belt. You're always on the way to something else. You never truly arrive anywhere. But winning the belt, it's a nice pit stop.

I took a year of karate. It was like obligatory... every kid was taking like one year of karate and one year of piano in my town. It was Bruce Lee and Liberace. But I was not a white belt. I graduated. I had a colour belt - but that's all you need to know. It could have been black, it could have been yellow, or it could have been anything in between.

Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

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

Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.

I am pretty standard, the way I dress, but matching the belt to the shoe - you know, brown belt, brown shoe, black belt black shoe - that's completely out of the window! I had no idea.

My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.

Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.

My wife has a black belt in shopping.

I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt.

Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda) Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)

A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.

I'm a black belt and have been since 2000.

Microsoft is still not a black belt.

I was awarded a second-degree black belt in jiu-jitsu by Rigan Machado.

It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it and I had to stop when I got "Instant Star" because I couldn't train.

A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.