Jackie Chan Quotes

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.

I would be a very different person without karate.

I can't imagine my life without martial arts. I would be a different person.

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

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

Never depart from the way of martial arts.

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

Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

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

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

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

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

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.

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

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

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

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.