Eve Torres Quotes

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

I would be a very different person without karate.

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

Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

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

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

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.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

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

I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am.

MMA has improved my life leaps and bounds.

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

Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me, is my lifestyle, my religion, my philosophy... Martial arts are everything for me.

I did a lot of tae kwon do and branched off into other stuff later on, but tae kwon do is great. It was my equalizer. That was how I was able to survive in the land of the giants. Thank God for that.

Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.

I briefly studied martial arts in college and realised that I might not be a great fighter physically, but it gave me mental strength and boosted my confidence.

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

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

Boxing is by far one of the best things to happen to my life.

I do believe in self-help.

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.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.