Favorite MA Quote

Z-Man

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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

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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
 

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

Ken Morgan

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

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

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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
 

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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.
 

Bill Mattocks

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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: 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.
 

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Old and sneaky beats young and fit every time.
 

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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?
 

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"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.
 

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"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)
 

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"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
 

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