Channing Tatum Quotes

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

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.

Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.

I had to make 500 shots every day, and when my mom wasn't looking, I'd get up closer to the basket and do lay-ups and count them, and she'd be at the back window at the kitchen and knock. Then I'd have to go back and shoot from longer.

Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

I'm just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

What I would do after training is stay half an hour and kick the ball against a wall with my weaker foot over and over again to make sure it gets stronger. And young players should remember that everything comes from the base of hard work, so never give up.

I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what happens your life.

I used to travel for 12 hours to learn to wrestle when I was 15.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.

I spend countless hours each and every day after practice doing form shooting. You know, coming in on off days to shoot.

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

People don't get it. Martial arts is my life.