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“There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.”

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Author:Tsutomu Ohshima

“A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect.”

Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master

“The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.”

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Author:Neil Young

“I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.”

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Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“The best part of falling is getting back up again.”

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Author:David Belle

“I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.”

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Author:Laz Alonso

“I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.”

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Author:Leo Howard

“I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.”

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Author:Lynn Collins

“You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.”

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Author:Cam Gigandet

“I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.”