Lucy Liu Quotes

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

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

I was raised doing martial arts.

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

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.

When you fight in the UFC and train with the guys that I train with, you learn that there is always still a lot of work to do.

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

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

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

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 never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that's just not in me.

I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You're going to put in the time. You've got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.