Martial Arts Quotations: Set 3

Move faster!  -Morgan Freeman to Kevin Costner in Robin Hood. 
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That which does not kill me only makes me stronger.
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Pain is weakness leaving the body. 
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There is no shame in fighting for that which is important. 
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It's not the belt that gives the champion respect, but the champion that gives the belt respect. -Shane Douglas 
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If your are coming, then COME ON!!
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First you're the nail, then you get to be the hammer.
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The most spiritual human beings—if we are to assume are the most courageous; experience by far the worst tragedies. But it is for this that they honor life—because it pits its greatest opposition against them. -Nietszche. 
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Pain is your friend. 
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The best thing about pain is that it lets you know that you are still alive.

It's what the champion does that makes him a champion.... It's what the other guy doesn't do, that makes him a coward. -Constantine "Cus" D'Amato 
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It is better to regret something you have done than to regret something that you have not done.
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It's not the critic who counts. Not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; who's face is marred by blood, sweat, and dust; who strives valiantly but errs and comes short again and again because there is no human endeavor without shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms - the great devotions; and who, if he wins, knows the triumphs of high achievement and who, if his efforts are checkered by defeat, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -Teddy Roosevelt 
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Success is traveling from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm -Churchill
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Pain is temporary, Pride is forever.
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Hold till cold. 
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My dream is to become your worst nightmare.
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Doubt not to reap, if thou canst bear to plough. -Judith Madan
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WAR: Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. -Sun Tzu 
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PERSUASION: Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. -Sun Tzu

ENEMIES: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. -Sun Tzu 
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We will either find a way, or we will make one. -Hannibal 400BC 
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An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. -O. A. Battista 
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CHARACTER: The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back. -Abigail Van Buren 
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. -Kahlil Gibran 
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The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge; where an ordinary person takes everything as either a blessing or a curse.  -Don Juan, Yaqui Medicine Man 
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our ability to do has increased. -Emerson 
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The ideal is in thyself, the impediment to is in thyself. -Thomas Carlyle 
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. -Sir Winston Churchill October 29, 1941

Success is doing the best you can, in as many ways as you can. It is being just and honest and true - not in a few things, but in everything you do. 

Always look ahead and never look back, believe you can make all your dreams come true. Always believe in the best you can be and have faith in the things that you do.

Forget about mistakes you’ve made yesterday, the lessons you learn will prove valuable for today .... Never give up and think you’re through, for there’s always tomorrow and a chance to begin brand new.

It is in dreaming the greatest dreams ....

and seeking the highest goals ....

that we build the brightest tomorrow.

There is no limit to the goals you can attain, or the success you can achieve .... your possibilities are as endless as your dreams.

-Unknown Author 
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Fortune favors the brave.
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A winner is willing to do what the loser will not.
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The harder I train the luckier I get. -Renzo 
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You come here to work on yourself, only yourself. Therefore, thank anyone who gives you the opportunity. -Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff 
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Learn to do the most with the least so that you may over come and conquer. -Zev 
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Everyday you don't workout—someone else does!

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows of triumph and high achievement, and if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls that know neither victory nor defeat.  -Teddy Roosevelt (he had a way with words) 
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Train hard, fight easy. - attributed to Marshal Suvorov of the Russian Army, 18th-19th centuries. 
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Training is everything, and everything is training! 
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Proper prior planning prevents piss-poor performance! 
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I hate guys
Who criticize
Other guys
Whose enterprise
Has helped them rise
Above the guys
Who criticize
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Training must be like bloodless battle so that battle is just like bloody training. -Roman Legionnaire saying 
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Pain? What's Pain? I've had pain all my life. I've been hurt all my life. I'm never going to have the pain gone. The pain's not going to be gone until I die. I've got too many joints that are beat up. It's just the way it is.  -Dan Gable
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There's only 3 ways to hit, Hard, Fast, and Continuously. 
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If you lose your head and give up, then you neither win nor live... and that's just the way it is. - Outlaw Josey Whales

Try not... DO, or DO NOT, there is no Try. - Yoda 
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Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. -Mike Ditka
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Higher consciousness through harder contact! -Dog Brothers
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If you say you're going to do it, and you go out and do it, it ain't braggin'. -Dizzy Dean 
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You don't have to like it -- you just have to do it. -Navy Seal saying. 
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Once Bruce Lee was accompanying Stirling Silliphant on a 3 mile run. Toward the end, Bruce said that they were now going to "shift gears" and do a couple of extra miles. The writer protested that he was 45 and couldn't do it. After 5 minutes running, Silliphant's head was pounding. "If I run anymore, I'll have a heart attack and die! he gasped. "Then DIE!" said Bruce. This made Silliphant so mad that he did the extra miles. 
Later while showering Bruce explained. If you put limits on yourself and what you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread over into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaux. But you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you."
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Your mind can make your train. Your body can create power. Only your heart can make you a champion.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. 
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. 
Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in Everyone. 
And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. 
Source: Inaugural Speech of Nelson Mandela (South Africa, 1994)

Lead with speed, devour with power. 
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. 
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Second place is first loser.
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In training, mistakes can be made. The street calls for perfection. 
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It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. -General Ben Childlaw
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one way to be the conqueror. -Andre Malraux 
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -Honore De Balzac 
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They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. -General Crieghton W. Abrams 
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And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
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Who dares, wins.  -Motto of the British SAS regiment

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning. -George Elliot 
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To be number one you have to train as if you're number two. 
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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. -General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. -Vince Lombardi 
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -Henry Ford (1863-1947) 
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Mark Twain (1835-1910) 
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The harder you train, the harder it is to give up. -Vince Lombardi. 1913-1970. 
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Live to Train, Train to Fight, Fight to Live.
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Lying makes a problem part of the future: truth makes a problem part of the past. - Rick Pitino
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. -Martina Navratilova
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Live out your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
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The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but its also the first to be replaced. -Marilyn Vos Savant
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried.
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
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Even monkeys fall from trees.
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It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop.
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Taekwondo is like hot water. If you don't keep adding hot, it will soon cool.
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Ride the horse in the direction it's going.
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You can't catch a tiger's cub unless you dare to step into it's cave.