Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well.

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

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.

Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

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

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

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.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

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 earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

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

I'm a second-degree black belt.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

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

I'm training in martial arts. It's a whole new world for me and I'm loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.

My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.

I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.

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