Nick Diaz Quotes

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.

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

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

I would be a very different person without karate.

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

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

People don't get it. Martial arts is my life.

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

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

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

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.

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.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

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

I was raised doing martial arts.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

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

People always say its an aggressive and bad sport and just like street fighting, but it's not the same thing. You go into work at the gym every day, and it takes away from being an aggressive person in public. You're training every day, and you're losing that aggression for the public.

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.

When I started training, I learned a lot, you know - respect. I think you learn a lot of things, and kids should learn mixed martial arts for discipline.

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.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.