Joe Rogan Quotes

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

Ali could only fight a couple of ways. I can fight five or six different ways.

My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.

I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

All combat sports are connected.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

To stand still is to regress.

Ka works and the world moves on.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

Stay on your toes and always move forward.