Karate Quotes

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

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

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Look eye! Always look eye!

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.

I go through life like a Karate Kid.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.

Ive been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.

People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.

Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old, I am dangerous.

My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.

Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants" new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate

The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Karate without heart is just A corpse

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress . . .

An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego