Shayna Baszler Quotes

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

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

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

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

My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.

The difference between me and other black belts is that I truly believe that jujitsu can be used in all aspects of MMA, because it was created to do that. If you train hard, it will work.

I am a Bruce Lee fan. I may be my fans' hero, but even heroes have their heroes. And mine is Bruce Lee.

I did a bit of karate - I'm a blackbelt - so I know how to move.

That's why I love jiu-jitsu, this is the best martial art in the world. It's an art that seeks the peace, to dominate your opponent.

I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the Bruce Lee movies.

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

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

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?

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.

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.