Amir Khan Quotes

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

No one has ever bitten me, and I've never bitten anyone on the court.

Boxing has taught me to be disciplined, to be respectful to those around me. I am able to travel the world, meet a lot of people, and make new friends.

Jiu-jitsu teaches you not to hurt your opponent, and that's inside of me.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

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.

Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

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 started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

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

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

I was raised doing martial arts.

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

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.