Karate Quotes: best 53 famous quotes about Karate

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1. "Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things."
Author: Ally Carter

2. "I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything."
Author: Ashley Bell

3. "It takes everything I have not to karate chop him for asking such a dumb question."
Author: Belle Aurora

4. "I go through life like a Karate Kid."
Author: Britney Spears

5. "Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion."
Author: Chuck Norris

6. "Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally."
Author: Criss Angel

7. "I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college."
Author: Dean Norris

8. "I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe."
Author: Dolph Lundgren

9. "My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me."
Author: Dolph Lundgren

10. "I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons."
Author: Elle Varner

11. "Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants" new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate"
Author: Elvis Presley

12. "I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate."
Author: Erik Estrada

13. "She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for."
Author: Francine Pascal

14. "It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate."
Author: Gerard Way

15. "One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I'm debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win."
Author: Herschel Walker

16. "We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting."
Author: Jaime King

17. "I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!"
Author: James Brown

18. "I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms."
Author: James Patterson

19. "I don't need a steak knife to cut my meat. That's why karate chops were created. I'm like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I'm great with bagels—and disobedient old people."
Author: Jarod Kintz

20. "I'll kill you with kindness. And if that doesn't work, I'll kill you with something deadlier, like a karate chop."
Author: Jarod Kintz

21. "I practice karate moves when I think nobody is watching. It's all part of being a real American badass, I guess. Chicks dig it. I mean they would, if they ever looked and caught me in a moment of awesomeness."
Author: Jarod Kintz

22. "I apologized for punching him. I thought he was attacking me with a karate chop disguised as a handshake."
Author: Jarod Kintz

23. "Yesterday I bought myself a karate trophy. But I feel like I won it, because the salesman really beat me up over the price."
Author: Jarod Kintz

24. "A karate black belt would make a great blindfold on a kidnap victim, after you karate chop them into submission."
Author: Jarod Kintz

25. "I ate leftover karate chops, before they could smash through the Styrofoam container holding them."
Author: Jarod Kintz

26. "I bought you a box of karate chops, but it could be dangerous to open it with a knife. And cats are masters at getting into boxes, so here, try opening it with my portable meow maker."
Author: Jarod Kintz

27. "Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further."
Author: Jean Claude Van Damme

28. "Man, it was so quiet you could hear a grasshopper karate chop a fly."
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

29. "I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error."
Author: John Maeda

30. "I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard."
Author: Katheryn Winnick

31. "Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities."
Author: Lupe Fiasco

32. "I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there."
Author: Lynn Collins

33. "I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt."
Author: Marjane Satrapi

34. "Well, you have adventures. All start out with troubles, but then you admit your problems and become a better person by working really hard, which is what fertilizes the happy ending and allows it to bloom—just like the end of all the Rocky films, Rudy, The Karate Kid, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, and The Goonies, which are my favorite films, even though I have sworn off movies until Nikki returns, because now my own life is the movie I will watch, and well, it's always on."
Author: Matthew Quick

35. "Johnny Cash had all of the same talents and problems as Elvis - a poor upbringing in the rural South exposure to gospel music throughout his childhood a penchant for drug abuse...they had the same sort of influencing experiences but Johnny' Cash's problematic relationship was with his father not his mother. If he had had the mommy issues that Elvis had instead of a compelling need to prove himself to his father, he wouldn't have been the badass man in black, the guy in Folsom Prison watching the train roll by. Elvis was a lot of things but even with the karate and the gunplay he was more unstable than badass."
Author: Molly Harper

36. "My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt."
Author: Molly Quinn

37. "I'll need a sparring partner." "Karate?" Those completely human-seeming eyes brightened in interest. "Katana." "Hot damn. Let's do it." Lucas coughed. "If you two have stopped flirting, we have business to discuss." Indigo grinned but stayed silent. Mercy wasn't so reticent. "So that's what it takes to get into Dorian's pants. I'll let the sentinel-chasers know." Her packmate's growl only widened her smirk."
Author: Nalini Singh

38. "Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate."
Author: Nick Harkaway

39. "I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it."
Author: Pamela Anderson

40. "Marc ducked, holstered his weapon. "You want to play? Have it your way." But then Darcangelo was behind him. "I've got this, Hunter. You go find the girl's dad. I'll handle Karate Kid here. I haven't had a good workout in weeks."
Author: Pamela Clare

41. "I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything."
Author: Pat Morita

42. "That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," Nick said arrogantly. "You might know karate, boy, but I know gorilla, and I'm a level 40 champion in it. Let's hear it for Diddy Kong! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!" He mimicked the sound of a gorilla as he held on for dear life."
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

43. "Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhindered gall. Nothing should interfere with that intuition--not the fear of appearing stupid, nor of offending somebody, nor jeopardizing publication, nor being trivial. The intuition must be as unhindered as a karate chop."
Author: Stephen Dobyns

44. "..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his kids, and then discovered that, as mothers, they were never supposed to have their own money, their own identity, their own aspirations, time to pee, or a brain. And yes, some women indeed became bad-tempered as a result. After all, no anger, no social change."
Author: Susan J. Douglas

45. "These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce."
Author: Terri Cheney

46. "To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight."
Author: Thomas Foran

47. "Some hugs were awkward. One person's arm headed over the other's shoulder just as that person was mirroring the action. So it would almost look like a defensive karate move in slow motion. Sometimes, a guy liked to hug around the waist and if the girl was shorter, he'd straighten a little and she'd end up on tip toe. This had always made her feel like a melon being weighed for juiciness. From the wrong man, from any man really, it was a creepy hug.Other hugs were comfortable, a perfect synchronization of arms crisscrossing around one another's backs, a full, warm, brief embrace that said "I care about you" but didn't cross any weird lines."
Author: Victoria Kahler

48. "Tono Phul used to entertain his guests by having the Filipino break two by fours in half with his karate chops. I saw him break a desk apart that way. Once, Tono Phul put him in a cage with an orangutan. The Filipino broke the ape's neck and then kicked it to death. He was the worst thing that ever came down the pike, and when Tono Phul had him tie me to a pool table and work me over, I was sure my time had come."
Author: Walter Kaylin

49. "Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy."
Author: William Zabka

50. "You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing."
Author: William Zabka

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