Eoin Colfer Quotes

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any other acting class, so when the opportunity comes, that skill can be really utilized, and it's not half-baked.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

I've got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.

I love hand-to-hand, and I love putting on these fights; that's the background I come from.

Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.

When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.

The techniques that you learn as a male fighter are the same techniques you learn as a female fighter.

Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

Even the basics of learning how to throw a good punch is very hard.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

I think all the fight stuff. I'm cut out for that. I used to wrestle in high school so I really love it, yeah. I love all the fighting and martial arts. Hey, why am I not up there? Oh, it's just a rehearsal. Keep going.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.