Jihae Quotes

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

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

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life.

I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.

People always say its an aggressive and bad sport and just like street fighting, but it's not the same thing. You go into work at the gym every day, and it takes away from being an aggressive person in public. You're training every day, and you're losing that aggression for the public.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

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

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 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.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

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.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.

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.

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

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

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

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 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.