Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

I've always been huge into martial arts.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.

I'm very, very, very interested in martial arts.

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

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

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.

I can punch, I'm heavy-handed, and I can box.

I had to learn martial arts.

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

We wanted the elemental 'bending' to be based on authentic Chinese traditional martial arts, believing this would lend a beauty and resonance to the animation and the fictitious disciplines. Once we had that idea, I started looking for a Kung Fu teacher/Martial Arts consultant. My search led me to Sifu Kisu and I began training with him right away.

Even the basics of learning how to throw a good punch is very hard.

I'll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I'll fight another wrestler, and you'll find out how good my striking is.

Being able to open up and use my kick would make me so much more dangerous. It wouldn't even be fair to use some of the weapons that we work on.

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'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

Now I'm with the American Top Team, I'm a better fighter, I'm a more patient fighter, I've improved in every aspect.

If all young actors want is to star in romances, what do they need to learn kung fu for?

Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.