Thomas Foran Quotes

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

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

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

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

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

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

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

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 grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

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 don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

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

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

I was raised doing martial arts.

I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.

Martial arts is something I studied since I was 6 years old.

I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am.

That's why I liked judo so much right from the start - I got to beat up all the boys.