Samoa Joe Quotes

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

Karate is my main martial art; that is what I train in every day. It has always been in my life. Sumo is another Japanese martial art that I got into at an early age. It is something that has helped and added to my overall stance and is a good base. It is not something I necessarily use in all my fights, though.

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.

My dad was able to wrestle so many great Japanese wrestlers.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

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

I've always been really interested in the age of the samurai in Japan.

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

All combat sports are connected.

No, I'm not a student of Snake Eyes, but we trained in the same dojo.

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a country that I love, and a culture that I love.

Wrestling in Japan is very much sports based.

I've been training jiu-jitsu for a while. It just didn't really click in my brain. Maybe sometimes I get a bit lazy. By the time I realize I'm in trouble, I'm already caught. You can't really think about it. You've got to just react as it happens.

The thing about mixed martial arts is you have to know every single martial art in the world or you're at a disadvantage. So, there's so much to learn. I have to know wrestling. I have to know kick boxing. I have to know boxing. I have to know karate.

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.

People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

I started training judo when I was 5 years old. I didn't know much. My mom just took me and my brother to do some judo because we were very energetic. We did that for a couple of years. I don't know why we stopped, but I came back to try other forms of martial arts like kung fu and karate when I was 12 and never stopped.

After intensive body building for eight years, I went to the U.S. for training. There, I learnt the art of wrestling. Later, I went to Japan and joined a wrestling group.

I was always into martial arts and boxing.

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.

Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.