Chiaki Kuriyama Quotes

I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.

Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

Forget about jiu-jitsu and wrestling - I'm a boxing guy.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

I can punch, I'm heavy-handed, and I can box.

I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.

I've always had heart to get in there and fight. I was taught everything I knew. I was taught how to jab, why to do this, and why not to do that. I was taught that.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

I've always been told that if you spar with another man, you try and emulate what a real fight is going to be like. So you go hard. It's how I've always been.

This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.

I've been working a lot on my jab.

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.

Being a woman fighter, I can't just go out there and manhandle a girl, I need to be very strategic: Use my skills, head movement and defence, then seek and destroy.

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