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“I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.”

Games Practice Cutting Mom Sitting Balls Soccer Wheels Schedules Orange Blanket Homework Karate Snacks Soccer Mom

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.”

Episodes Chips Trainers Karate

Author:Erik Estrada

“One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.”

Source: Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text

“My Way is the Way of Karate, which is also the Way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the Way of Heaven.”

Way Humanity Heaven My Way Related Karate

Author:Mas Oyama

“The heart of our karate is real fighting.There can be no proof without real fighting. Without proof there is no trust. Without trust there is no respect. This is a definition in the world of martial arts.”

World Heart Art Real Fighting Definitions Proof Martial Arts Karate No Respect Without Trust No Trust

Author:Mas Oyama

“Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.”

Ifs Ideas Shows Sports Fashion Training Fashionable Karate

Author:Mas Oyama

“Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.”

Way Body Spirit Moral Training Mere Technique Karate Cultivating Surpassing

Author:Mas Oyama

“Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.”

Limitless Karate Iceberg Profundity Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Mas Oyama

“Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Form Stuff Study Influence Discipline Shapes Conscious Exposed Karate Kung Fu

Author:Criss Angel

“Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.”

Years Persons Self Spiritual Games Given Sports Half Meditation Building Exercise Calm Defense Burning Self Defense Tranquil Karate Unafraid Physical Exercise Burning Buildings

Author:Mas Oyama

“Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.”

Ifs Water Heat Karate Boiling Boiling Water

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.”

Mean Sensitive Explanation Sensitivity Karate Deep Inside

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.”

Knows Needs Years Mind Philosophy Body Spirit Sports Six Clean Seven Concentration Seven Years Mind And Body Karate

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.”

Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art

“It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.”

“I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.”

Feels Firsts Art Needed Safe Prove Martial Arts Karate Judo

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.”

Hard Father Figures Dad My Dad British Champion Mentor Karate Brian Father Figure Sensei

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.”

Knows Sports Boring Technique Karate

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.”

Food Beats Cooking Prison Meat Kicks Dishes Asian Karate Pigeons

Book:Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

Source: Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price

“I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.”

I Can Able Actors Can Do Calling Karate Good Actors

Author:Pat Morita

“Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.”

Men School Father Clear Particular Drug Gun Clean Block Kicks Complexity Neighborhood Gang Rivals Dealer Karate Facets Drug Dealers Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.”

Knows Made Kids Know How College Karate Publicists Back To College

Author:Elisabeth Shue

“I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.”

Rooms Creating Errors Software Karate

Author:John Maeda

“I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.”

Passionate Quitting Karate I Quit

Author:Kristin Kreuk