George R. R. Martin Quotes

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

Training is my life. It's all I've known since I was in second grade, when I started wrestling.

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

When you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it's like school - the more time you spend learning, the better you'll be prepared for a test.

Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.

When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

When I started training, I learned a lot, you know - respect. I think you learn a lot of things, and kids should learn mixed martial arts for discipline.

I started training for MMA when I was 18 years old. My jujitsu coach told me, 'Amanda, you should try MMA.' Since that moment, I got in love with this sport and haven't stopped.

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

When you fight in the UFC and train with the guys that I train with, you learn that there is always still a lot of work to do.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

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.

What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.

I love training and I love being able to kick ass.

In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.