Rick Yune Quotes

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

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.

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.

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

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.

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

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.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

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.

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.

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.

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'm quite strong for a girl. I studied karate growing up - I'm a brown belt - and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other.

I was raised doing martial arts.

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

I'm hooked on 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 self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.