Karen Bass Quotes

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

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.

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

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

I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.

Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

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

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

I was raised doing martial arts.

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.

People don't get it. Martial arts is my life.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

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

I was crazy about martial arts. At the age of three, I started training in karate.

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've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

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

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

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

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.