Martial Arts Quotes

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” ~ James Corbett

“It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.” ~ Miyamoto Musashi

“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“Fight only after creating conditions for victory.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi, The Swordless Samurai

“A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.” ~ Jhoon Rhee

“Every conflict is won before it is ever fought.” ~ Sun-tzu

“Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi, The Swordless Samurai

“Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don’t support them with strength and flexibility.” ~ Bruce Lee

“You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you’re down to your reflexes – your training. That’s where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of morning, you’re getting found out now, under the bright lights.” ~ Joe Frazier

“Brotherhood starts the day we walk off the street and into the training hall. There, regardless of who we are, we are all the same. We leave our differences at the door and we unite for one purpose, to help ourselves and each other become the best we can be” ~ Master Karen Eden

“Training in weapons gives a perfect judgment, it expels melancholy, choleric and evil conceits, it keeps a man in breath, perfect health, and long life… it makes him bold, hardy and valiant.” ~ George Silver

“I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.” ~ Bruce Lee

“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.” ~ Bruce Lee

“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.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!” ~ Bruce Lee

“If you rely on strength, there’s a limit to strength.

As you get older your strength naturally declines.

But there’s no limit to how much control you can develop.”

~ Chow Hung-Yuen