martial arts quotes

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Posture for combat is so vital.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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.