Jimi Manuwa Quotes

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I like fighting because it's honest.

Our first job is to go out there and fight - not to do backflips or have a mustache.

I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.

The audiences love to see me fight on screen.

I have fun when I fight, and I am going to have a lot of crazy moves.

Fighting is what I do.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them?

I enjoy traveling, teaching and fighting. It's in my blood.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

I love doing action.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick.

It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceress.' There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, 'Look, you don't want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.'