Jet Li Quotes

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 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 knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

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

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

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

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

Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

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 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.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

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

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.

I would be a very different person without karate.

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

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.

Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.

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

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.

I briefly studied martial arts in college and realised that I might not be a great fighter physically, but it gave me mental strength and boosted my confidence.