Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.

Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.