Donnie Yen Quotes

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

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'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

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

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 was raised doing martial arts.

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

I have a flexible body.

As a 4-year-old, I saw two men competing in the ring, and I thought it was martial arts. I asked my parents if I could do martial arts. So, I was 5 or 6-years-old, and I was doing karate and jiu-jitsu. Later on, I started kickboxing. Then, it just progressed. I did a little bit of everything, but predominantly, I did kickboxing.

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

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.

I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

Never depart from the way of martial arts.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.