Sam Rockwell Quotes

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

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

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

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

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.

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

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.