Martial Art Related Quotes

[Ari Bolden]

Hey everyone:

I've always been a guy who has loved quotes. There are several quotes that I love and I'd like to see yours...let em fly!

"When the battle is over, tighten your helemt straps:-samurai maxim

"Always take arrows in the forehead." -samurai maxim

" 'Its not the art,its the fighter.'.....ever heard that before? Isn't that like saying : Its not the car its the driver? Well, if I wanted to win a street race, I think I'd choose a Corvette over a Pinto. Put the best driver in the best car you get the best results. Jiu Jitsu baby! Jiu Jitsu!"

[Dannicus]

As long as I am up, posting silly links for things I might as well add some nice quotes i have found.

"Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result." - Tien T'ai

"Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant." - Tsukahara Bokuden

"Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; POSITION yourself for the advantage." - Deng Ming-Dao

"The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still." - Sun Tzu

And more as I find them. I'm a bit of a "finding things on the internet" geek. But hey, that's how I found you guys!

[KunoichiLaura]

Here is some of my favs

"Learn from the mistakes of others,
you may not live long enough to make them all yourself."

"Ride the horse in the direction it's going."

"The More You Sweat In Practise The Less You Bleed In Battle"

"Cry in the dojo, Laugh in the battlefield"

"When the enemy comes welcome him, when he leaves send him on his way"

"Fall 7 times get up 8"

[Hadaka Jime]

"wax on... wax off":p ha ha sorry corny one but right now my copy of sun tzu's the art of war is crammed somewhere in my bookshelf i'll have some good one's from there soon enough

[Hobobagins]

My favorite and so true

"Be like water my friend" - Bruce lee

[r4p7ur3]

"I am undefeated in all of Asia. Of course, I have never fought in any of Asia. Which pretty much guarantees I'm undefeated there. "

""Do not covet illustrious titles and certificates; practice your technique and adhere to the Way, for the wind will not read." -- F. L. Lovret "

"That which does not kill us, sets up a counterpunch. "

"Talk is cheap, pain says so much more... -- Old bugei proverb "

"Sensei will give you the first fish,
but if you ask for more,
he'll give you a fishing pole. "

[Shotim]

"Walk softly and carry a big stick"

"Not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog"

"Dont let your alligator mouth overload your tadpole ass"

[tuchek]

"When hit once in a MMA fight, A BJJ Black belt becomes a brown belt, when struck again, he becomes a purple belt, when struck again he becomes a blue belt." - Dont remember


"pain heals....chicks dig scars.....but glory lasts a forever" -Keanu Reaves from The Replacements

[CraigBo]

"civilize the mind, make savage the body"

[Ari Bolden]

Craigbo:

Finally posting something......very ellusive..mr. ninja....

[Ghosted3]

Fall seven times get up eight.
The harder you work the sweeter the victory.
Pain is temporary but pride is forever.
To really try is to try when the time is hard.
At least once in your life train with the will to die.
Blood is nothing but red sweat.

Those are a few that I like.

[Hadaka Jime]

Okay, finally went threw some books and the web and found some good ones:)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand"-Confucius
"Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique"-Bruce Lee
"The greatest power is often simple patience"-E. Joseph Cossman
"I have not failed 700 times, I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work"-Thomas Edison
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."-Mohandas Gandhi
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."-Confucius (that's one of my personal favorites)
"Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise. It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result."-Tien T'ai
"Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage."-Deng Ming Dao
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Pain is the best instucter, but no one wants to go to his class"-Bruce Lee
"He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position"-Ed Parker
"The art of the sword consists of never being concerned with victory or defeat, with strength or weakness, of not moving one step forward, nor one step backward, or the enemy not seeing me and my not seeing the enemy. Penetrating to that which is fundamental before the separation of heaven and earth where even yin and yang cannot reach, one instantly attains proficiency in the art"-Takuan
"


wierd one for eddie bravo to look at (wierd because they are both named ed)
"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create." -Ed Parker




Some good ones from Lao Tzu and Sun Tzu-(wrote the art of war)**some say Tzu and some say Tsu they are the same people**
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"-Lao Tzu
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."-Lao Tzu
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."-Lao Tzu
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love."-Lao Tzu
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."-Lao Tzu
"The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still."-Sun Tzu
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat"-Sun Tzu
"To defeat 100 enemies in 100 battles is not the highest skill, to subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill"-Sun Tzu

and a good one to end with.... sorry for posting tons just thought i'd put some out there for you guys

"There are two rules to bieng sucessful in a martial art
Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know"

[Eric?!]

One Of My Favorite Quotes Ever Is In My Sig...

[PhxRph]

"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

[Tallsilkyslim]

"He who goes to bed with itchy bum, wake up with stinky finger."

[Ryan]

The First rule of fight club is that we do not talk about fight club.

[Eric?!]

The First rule of fight club is that we do not talk about fight club.

MWHAHAHA... LOL... THATS SUCH A CLASSIC LINE AND A GREAT MOVIE IMHO?!

[Tagg1080]

"I worshiped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong"
"What is tradition? When pure fist meets pure flesh this is tradition in its purest form."
"An ounce of logic is worth a ton of tradition that has been obsolete through the weathering of time."
"Martial arts is like riding a bike, you don't fall off until you stop pedaling."
"If the fist goes forth, hold back the temper. If the temper goes forth, hold back the fist."

[Martin]

Flow with the go.

[Myke]

The secret is in the ass.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u174/myke_nicholas/zelda2.jpg

[CEB]

The hold true for a lot if things. The largest muscle in the body gluteus maximus. The ass also has gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. :D

When I can't do something in Jiu Jitsu it is usually because I am not correctly using the hips.

[Myke]

Rampage Jackson was on an episode of Fight Science or something and they asked him why he thinks he punches so hard.

his response was -you wanna know whah? I put mah ASSSS into it man.

[jt1]

"One becomes a beginner after one thousand days of training and an expert after ten thousand days of practice."
-Mas Oyama

"I realized that perseverance and step by step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path."
-Mas Oyama

"The essence of training is the persistence, willpower and tenacity to perfect whatever you do."
-Helio Gracie

"The only acceptable, positive, and long lasting solution to training problems lies in coming to terms with the fact that when you seem to be having the most problems and making the least progress, that is in fact the time when the seeds of further progress are being planted. If you are dedicated to the martial arts you will keep on training, and that is the only answer. The only real secret: more training."
-Nigel Sutton 'Searching for the Way

Master Ittei said, "If one were to say what it is to do good, in a single word it would be to endure suffering. Not enduring is bad without exception."
-Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai

[cree357]

Flow with the go.
Does this come from the movie Choke? I just saw it and I had seen shirts and such before. it was classic. i'm not making fun of Rickson definitely not in 1995 not even today

[Dr Sick]

I've quoted it before and I'll do it again.

"If you think you're gonna die, don't squeal like a b!TC#, because you just might live."

- Pat Tray - Martial Arts Legend and Navy Seal

[Otto]

Although not from Martial Arts, it certainly applies to Martial Arts.

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” - Mark Twain

[Sue]

"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go, it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." -Alice Mackenzie Swaim

[Tagg1080]

Don't strike to grapple, grapple to strike!
-Sigung Ben Fajardo

[Echo 3 Kilo 1]

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.-Muhammad Ali

[PacificFlows]

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

[sodaghost]

"Revenge is a dish best served in ten courses with a show."

[Ghosted3]

"The truth will always show on the mats, there everyone is honest." Carlos Gracie Jr.

[Adam]

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger.":Friedrich Nietzsche

[Tallsilkyslim]

“I will beat you into a living death.” - Ken Shamrock

“Bring on Fedor.” - Tim Sylvia

“When I started, I used to go off just instincts. Then they took head butts away, so I had to learn some skills.” - Mark Coleman

“I’m gonna knock you hair black.” - Ken Shamrock to Tito Ortiz

“Damn, I’m ugly.” - Forrest Griffin

“After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV, and I have a martini.” - Tank Abbott

“Who knows what would have happened to him, aeronautically speaking.” - Dan Severn

“My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I’m pretty sure it’s yours too.” - Phil Baroni

“A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.” - Royce Gracie

“I will get respect, or I will die.” - Ken Shamrock

“Prepare yourself for the worst, and the best will always happen.” - Tito Ortiz

“Conditioning is my best weapon.” - Frank Shamrock

“My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.” - Don Frye

“I like Tito. I like a lot of people, but I’ll fight every one of ‘em. It’s all business. When I step into the Octagon, it’s all business.” - Chuck Liddell on fighting Tito Ortiz.

“I’m already going in with a win.” - Jerry Bohlander before losing to Tito Ortiz.

“I’m going to show the world why the Rangers belong in the Octagon.” - Greg “The Ranger” Stott prior to getting knocked out in 18 seconds.

“I have a high threshold for pain.” - Patrick Smith before being submitted by Ken Shamrock.

“The higher a monkey climbs up a tree, the more he has to cover his ass.” - Shonie Carter

“All I saw was swinging.” - Jim Brown

“Don’t call me a loser in front of my mom!” - Forrest Griffin

“You know, I just went from the barstool to the Octagon.” - Tank Abbott

“You get on Queer Street…you make a right turn…you’re back to Main.” - Tank Abbott

“Beating people up is a positive thing.” - Tank Abbott

“I didn’t think I was going to win.” - Remco Pardoel following a win.

“I came to party in the Octagon.” - Cal Worsham

“I’ll be back in about three minutes.” - Robbie Lawler before quickly defeating his opponent.

“Don’t fear me, fear the consequences.” - Paul Buentello

“Boxing is your father’s sport.” - Dana White

“Not bad for an old man.” - Randy Couture

“If he never walked again, I’d be cool with that.” - Chris Leben

“My weiner’s bigger than his.” - Joe Riggs discussing his chances against Matt Hughes.

“I ain’t no loser.” - Gary Goodridge after a UFC loss.

“Okay. Right here, I’m tickling his brain.” - Tank Abbott while watching a replay in which he presses his opponent’s head into the cage.

“Isn’t that the guy on the coffee can?” - Tank Abbott on his Brazilian opponent, Hugo Duarte.

“The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.” - Royce Gracie

“…and I’m here to bust the ultimate fighting challenge.” - Steve Jennum on participating in the UFC.

“I don’t think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell.” - Tank Abbott

“I’m gonna win this tournament because I am the most athletic fighter in it.” - Tank Abbott

“I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.” - Tank Abbott after losing to Dan Severn.

“I’m American. I can’t stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they’ll go anywhere if there’s a little money. I live in America. I want to be a champion of an American organization.” - Phil Baroni

“I just take fights that make me feel comfortable.” - Tito Ortiz, who has sometimes been accused of ducking certain fighters.

“When I go in there, I’m not going in there to win. I’m going in there to fight.” - Tank Abbott

“What? Did he just win the Olympics?” - Tank Abbott after the crowd goes wild during a match.

“You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.” - Royce Gracie

“It’s about having confidence in yourself. I’m not afraid of that man across from me.” - Ken Shamrock

“My breathing techniques make me impervious to chokes.” - Joe Son before getting choked out in his UFC debut.

“He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day and looks like a pussy today.” - Tank Abbott

“I’ll bet he wishes he had that other pectoral muscle right about now.” - Tank Abbott commenting on Tra Telligman’s TKO loss. Telligman lost one pectoral muscle due to a childhood accident.

“Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.” - Royce Gracie

“Tank has no style and need to be taught a lesson.” - Hugo Duarte before his loss to Tank Abbott.

“Tito is one-dimensional…just a big wrestler.” - Jerry Bohlander before losing to Tito Ortiz.

“I don’t care who it is. I’ll knock ‘em both out.” - Chuck Liddell on who he would rather face, Tito Ortiz or Ken Shamrock.

“In a real fight in a bar, you wouldn’t be able to lay on your back like a bitch. You might catch a pool cue to the back of the head.” - Tank Abbott

“I’m starting to get sexually aroused right now. You better get that off.” - Tank Abbott after watching a replay of his knockout of John Matua.

“Hey, ref…don’t look at me! Pay attention to the fight!” - Bas Rutten during a fight.

“I’m going to teach him a lesson in humility.” - Ken Shamrock before losing to Tito Ortiz.

“Do you know what pimp stands for? It stands for Punching Is My Pleasure.” - Shonie Carter

“Blood is just red sweat.” - Enson Inoue

“Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.” - Enson Inoue

“I come to kill or be killed. My plan is to rip his head off. If that doesn’t work, I rip his arms off. If that doesn’t work, I rip his legs off.” - Tony Halme before losing a fight in under 30 seconds.

“I’m here to break people.” - Jon Hess prior to breaking his wrist in his next match.

“My diet is like Atkins, but with the carbs.” - BJ Penn

“The first time I fight him, he beat me fairly squarely.” - Georges St. Pierre talking about Matt Hughes.

“I will pass his guard. Elbows will be dropping, and bones will be breaking.” - Diego Sanchez

“I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.” - Royce Gracie

“I don’t know what kind of technique was used there, but there was a lot of kicking and punching.” - Jim Brown

“The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough.” - Tank Abbott

“At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.” - Enson Inoue

“If I get a hold of something, I’m gonna break it!” - Ken Shamrock prior to losing a match.

“I’m trained in the ancient art of breaking bones.” - John Matua prior to getting savagely knocked out by Tank Abbott.

“I’m gonna squish that small head of yours.” - Ken Shamrock to Tito Ortiz

“Here’s where I hit him with the light switch.” - Tank Abbott commenting on his knockout of Steve Nelmark.

“Let me tell you something about the ground game and jiu-jitsu. All you un-athletic people out there, you know this for a fact. Little kids learn jiu-jitsu. Women learn jiu-jitsu. You don’t have to be an athlete to know jiu-jitsu. You have to be an athlete to wrestle in college or walk into a boxing gym and have competitive boxing matches and fight people. You just have to be a bitch and lay on your back to know jiu-jitsu. I mean, come on. It’s the truth.” - Tank Abbott

“I’m gonna show Tito who Ken Shamrock is, was, and is now.” - Ken Shamrock prior to a loss to Tito Ortiz.

“I plan on knocking him out and punishing him. Making him quit. Making him say, you know, ‘Phil, you’re the better man. I’m sorry. I tapped out, please let me get out of here with my life.’ So that’s going to be the difference.” - Phil Baroni on what was going to be different in his rematch with Matt Lindland. Baroni lost both matches.

“I’m gonna beat you down like the punk you are, cause that’s what you are is a punk!” - Ken Shamrock prior to a loss.

“Tank’s a fantastic human being, as far as fighting’s concerned.” - Jim Brown

“That’s straight from the Shaolin temple.” - Eddie Bravo after witnessing a poorly executed spinning backfist.

“Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.” - Frank Shamrock

“Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.” - Don Frye

“It’s an octagonal octagon.” - Bill Wallace

[Otto]

"What happened?" - Tank Abbot after learning that nobody gave a fuck.

[Sue]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Marianne Williamson

[rocknroll]

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

Bruce Lee

[Showtime]

Page four and we haven't heard this gem yet:

"Try? Is no try. Do, or do not." - Master Yoda

A couple of my other fav's:

"I am what I am, and that's all that I am." - Popeye

"You get what you focus on, so focus on what you want." - unknown

"The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of one's character." - Gichen Funakoshi

[Otto]

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, your hands can't hit what your eys can't see.
Rumble, young man, rumble. Ahhhhhhh!"

Muhammad Ali and Drew Bundini Brown

[Sue]

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

-Mary Anne Radmacher

[jiujitsumaniac]

A couple I have always liked:

"It is not what you get at the end of your journey, but what you have learned along the way".

and

"A black belt is just a white belt that had the courage not to quit".

[zaxonortesus]

Yamasaki's main gym in DC has the black belt quote painted HUGE on one wall, it's a good one, I have always liked it.

[BadKarmaRising]

Not exactly the spirit of the thread, but a quote from a world class martial artist!

A while back at a judo camp after beating our asses, Igor Yakimov was lamenting the state of judo in north america and and looked over to the mat where some guys were working on a kata.

With a look that was a mix of sadness and mild disgust he said "too many black belt now. In soviet union, you want black belt, you must vin someting. No black belt for tying shoes or kata"


I still chuckle when I remember it.

[Nixed]

In highschool our wrestling room had a few sayings hung up on the walls. None of them were specifically about martial arts, but all seemed fairly appropriate.

"Success is not a destination, but a journey." The internet credits Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.

"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity."
Google gives credit to a roman philosopher, Seneca.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

We had some pretty good coaches, but the one who showed most of the technique had placed 8th in the '76 Olympics. One day he was showing some clinch stuff and explaining how controlling the guys head allowed you to control where he went, and in the middle of it his eyes lit up and he said 'Kill the head and the body will die'. After that he'd use that all the time yelling it out mid practice. Since it is the most directly MA related..
"Kill the head and the body will die." Coach Farina

[zaxonortesus]

"I have learned that lessons not taught in blood, are often soon forgotten" -Law Abiding Citizen

Just came across this quote, thought of this thread, so I had to bring it back up from the dead.

[Matt]

"I have learned that lessons not taught in blood, are often soon forgotten" -Law Abiding Citizen

Just came across this quote, thought of this thread, so I had to bring it back up from the dead.

Emotional attachment is a very strong concept :cool:

[zaxonortesus]

There are two types of people in this world. Those who have found their calling in Martial Arts, and those that still wander lost.

[NebS]

More like, there are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary code, and those who don't. ;)