Favorite MA Quote

[Z-Man]

I recently heard the quote below and liked it a lot.

"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."
Mike Tyson

There are countless MA quotes that I admire.
Martial artists out there, please let me know your favorite martial arts quotes.
Thanks!

[Big Don]

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali
If I ever get paid for Kenpo, that will be tattooed on my chest...

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. Theodore Roosevelt

[MA-Caver]

Be shapeless, formless, like water. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. ~Bruce Lee

[David43515]

Q: Why do you practice MA?

A: Because when seconds count, help is just minutes away.

[Ken Morgan]

My Sensei, after watching me practice,
"What the **** was that?!"

[Big Don]

My Sensei, after watching me practice,
"What the **** was that?!"
I heard that directed at a higher ranking Black Belt at a seminar not too long ago.

[HerbM]

Keep fighting -- God will tell you when you are dead.

[Hand Sword]

"Just squeeze the juice!"


:rofl:

[Blindside]

Not a real quote but:

“Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.”
~Robert A. Heinlein


and:


"The best parry is the blow."
~Maestro Luigi Barbasetti, 1899

[Hand Sword]

"Strike first, Strike Hard, No Mercy Sir!"

[OnlyAnEgg]

It's a poor weapon that doesn't point in both directions.

[wushuguy]

Here's a few, not necessarily serious, but stuff I heard others say:
-Fisting is supposed to hurt.

-person 1: "Don't let him in your triangle" person 2: "I can't stop him, he's so hard."

-The stronger they are, the harder they hit themselves.

[Big Don]

-Fisting is supposed to hurt.


Whoa. Too much information, dude

[Bill Mattocks]

Don't let your mouth write a check your body can't cash.

It doesn't matter who's right. It only matters who's left.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Come back with your shield, or on it.

Smile and I'll tell you how many of your teeth you take home in your pocket.

I will hit you so hard and so fast, you'll be yelling "Ya'll stop."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/quotes

Wat (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876138/): Uh, betray us, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain.

[Tez3]

Old and sneaky beats young and fit every time.

[kungfu penguin]

1]i havent been hit that hard since.... Crap! Ive never been hit that hard!
2]that which does not kill you only makes you stronger

ive always hated this one:
3] its a long way from the heart
my sensei said this just after he drilled me in the solar plexus and threw me off the mat so i would not barf on his mat. just how far is the solar plexus from the heart anyway, maybe an inch?

[Hand Sword]

"2 hits! Me hitting you, and you hitting the floor!"

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

"Fighting hurts." Jim Tirey, my deceassed Sempai said that alot when people would get little injuries or little hurts and spend to much time on it. He said it was a common saying in Spec Ops, he was in them since the 70s.

"There is no pain where strength lies." the Sith

"Close, Entr kill!"

"There are no dangerous weapons, just dangerous men." _Unkown S.O.E Officer in the 2nd World War.

Speed, surpisse + violence of action + Chaos."

"One mind any Weapon - USMAC MCMAP MOTTO but Bristol I think took it from Shinkage Ryu.

[Blade96]

"No eating in the dojo! You know that!" - My sensei at our seminar this weekend barking when i had to eat while resting for a couple of mins because i couldnt eat any of the food provided at lunchtime because it contained wheat gluten, barley, malt, etc which i'm allergic to.

Then he found out i was allergic. apologized and he was extra nice to me after that. :) He's really an angel.

"Its just pain" My sensei again when someone got hurt some years before

(Something tells me my sensei never experienced real pain before lol)

[David43515]

"WARNING: Unattended children will be filled with espresso, given a puppy and a drum, and taught to swear."

sign a friend used to hang up when he taught his adults only class

[Cirdan]

Assumption is the mother of all screwups.

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why so few engage in it.

The obstacle is the path.

Follow not in the footsteps of the masters, but rather seek what they sought.

Don`t punch a girl in the groin, your hand will get stuck.

[sgtmac_46]

I recently heard the quote below and liked it a lot.

"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."
Mike Tyson

There are countless MA quotes that I admire.
Martial artists out there, please let me know your favorite martial arts quotes.
Thanks!

That's one of my personal favorites as well!

Another one is.....


"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!" -Bruce Lee

[Balrog]

My sig is my favorite quote.

[Thesemindz]

Lord Naoshige said, "The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

-Hagakure

[David43515]

"I wanna leave this world the same way I came into it: naked, screaming, and covered in someone else`s blood."

[Big Don]

"I wanna leave this world the same way I came into it: naked, screaming, and covered in someone else`s blood."
Oswald:"You're born naked and you die naked."
Kate:"You don't die naked."
Oswald:"You do if you plan it right."
The Drew Carey Show

[Jason Striker II]

"You want to shake my hand, that's one thing ... but if you want to get tough, I'll whup your ass!"

Elvis Presley

[ralphmcpherson]

"He's so fast that when he turns the light off in his bedroom, he's in bed before it gets dark"

[Instructor]

"I am here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I am all out of bubble gum." Rowdy Roddy Piper

[chinto]

"IF YOU WOULD HAVE PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR!!" ancient saying .. predates even the Greeks and Egyptians I think, But still very true!
"train like you will fight when its real!!" US ARMY training commands
"When two Tigers fight, One is dead, the Other is mortally wounded!" Old Okinawan saying.
"When two men fight, the winner is the one still living!" Old saying in many places, Okinawa included.

and then there is the quote in my signature block. been there for years and very true.
"unarmed hand to hand fighting has NOT changed through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest. -- Robert A. Heinlien"

[zDom]

"Sooner or later you lose your speed, you lose your strength and everybody learns your tricks. Then you find out if you're any damned good or not."

—— Steve Strauch, a Kendoka.

[Xue Sheng]

Do nothing which is of no use - Miyamoto Musashi

[seasoned]

Do nothing which is of no use - Miyamoto Musashi



A Book of Five Rings.

Excellent read for anyone interested in an in-depth insight into Martial Arts.......... :asian: