Belt Ranking Quotes

I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

I definitely want to defend my 145 belt.

There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

In karate, as your skill level increases, your instructor presents you with the next belt. But in poker, only you can decide when it's time to graduate to the next level. That's a tricky proposition for some players because it's difficult to assess your own progress.

I like to say I eat black belts for breakfast. They're just great match-ups for me.

Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!

People often don't believe me when they first meet me and I tell them I'm a judoka. I then show them my arms, which speak for themselves.

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

I'm a second-degree black belt.