Top 1200 Martial Artist Quotes & Sayings

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.

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

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

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

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

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it's like, 'I'm an artist, I'm trying to grow. I don't want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!' Same thing for a martial artist.

I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what happens your life.

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

I'm a martial artist. That's what I've been doing since I was three years old, and fighting since i was 15 and that's all I know how to do. The money is just a bonus. It's a bonus for me. I think my real job is teaching martial arts, it's what I love to do.

My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.

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.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

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

You can trade money for other good things and that's nice, but it's not the first thing that matters to me. I'm a martial artist and I have other priorities.

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.

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

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.

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

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

As a martial artist, I discovered that there's always so much more to learn.

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

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" with Jackie Chan. Then we sort of got pulled into the superhero world, but then you look around at what's not on television and there wasn't really a martial arts shows. There are shows that do martial arts to a degree, but there's not a martial arts show.

I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.

Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me, is my lifestyle, my religion, my philosophy... Martial arts are everything for me.

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

When I'm at the gym, I work very hard to achieve my goal and to get better as a mixed martial artist.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

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

I don't train like a mixed martial artist. I don't respect the sport like everyone else does.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

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.

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.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so fun. It's like dancing, but more bad-ass. I really enjoy doing it.

Martial arts was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I wasn't getting what I needed from college. When I realized that I could fight for money and have it be part of my learning experience as a martial artist, it made perfect sense for me to dive into fighting.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

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

The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

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

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

On 'Black Lightning' I have a stunt double who's a lot younger than me. The fighting style on the show is heavily martial arts-based, and I know boxing; I don't know martial arts. I also have a really bad knee, and he's been doing martial arts since he was 6 years old, so I'm not thinking, 'No, I can do that! I can make that look cool!'

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

Scott Coker's a martial artist. He's an honest guy. If you ask him to do something he'll do it, or else he'll tell you why he can't do it. That's what fighters need.