Martial Quotes

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

I like to fight in America.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.

The hideous god of war.

I've always loved to fight. I love what I do, and that is why I've been doing it for so long. I really enjoy fighting and competing at a high level. I love getting in there and getting after it.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

I'm just a fighter.

At heart I am a warrior.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

There's weaknesses in every fighter.

Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t do drugs. I kick people in the face for a living. So, if that’s something you’re into — if you like watching people get kicked in the face — come see me. I’ll probably be your favorite wrestler.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

I am a Division 1 wrestler.

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.