Pat Morita movie quotes

“- Daniel: Karate's fighting. You train to fight.
- Miyagi: That what you think?
- Daniel: [pondering] No.
- Miyagi: Then why train?
- Daniel: [thinks] So I won't have to fight.
- Miyagi: [laughs] Miyagi have hope for you.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“You good cop and honorable man.”

Pat Morita - Investigator Fujitsuka Natsuo

Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later... [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no". You karate do "guess so".
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“Lie become truth only if person wanna believe it.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- The Emperor: The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
- Shang: Sir?
- The Emperor: You don't meet a girl like that every dynasty.”

Pat Morita - The Emperor
BD Wong - Shang

“- Daniel: Mr. Miyagi? Was Sato as good as you in karate?
- Miyagi: We had same teacher.
- Daniel: Your father?
- Miyagi: Hai.
- Daniel: But I thought your family's karate was only taught from father to son?
- Miyagi: Father make exception.
- Daniel: If you and Sato had fought, would your father have been the referee?
- Miyagi: Would've been no...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ralph Macchio - Daniel
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Daniel: I know you don't believe in fighting, but tournament karate isn't exactly fighting.
- Miyagi: Not exactly ping-pong, either.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Miyagi: The sun is warm, the grass is green.
- Julie Pierce: What?
- Miyagi: If today Julie-san get angry, just you repeat those words.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi
Hilary Swank - Julie Pierce

“Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Daniel: You're the best friend I've ever had.
- Miyagi: You... pretty okay, too.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Daniel: How did you do that? How did you do that?
- Miyagi: Don't know. First time.”

Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Miyagi: Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.
- Daniel: Ever catch one?
- Miyagi: Not yet.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso

“- Daniel: All right, so what are the rules here?
- Miyagi: Don't know. First time you, first time me.
- Daniel: Well, I figured you knew about this stuff. I figured you went to these before. Oh great, I'm dead. I am dead. You told me you fought a lot.
- Miyagi: For life, not for points.”

Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Miyagi: Inside you same place you karate come from.
- Daniel: My karate comes from you.
- Miyagi: Ah. Only root karate come from Miyagi. Just like bonsai choose own way grow because root strong you choose own way do karate same reason.
- Daniel: I do it your way.
- Miyagi: Hai. One day you do own way.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“Never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

Here are the two rules of Miyagi-Ryu Karate, rule number one: “karate for defense only”, rule number two: “first learn rule number one”.
Pat Morita - Miyagi
Ralph Macchio - Daniel

“- Julie Pierce: Congratulations? That's all you're gonna say is congratulations? Don't I get a belt or something?
- Miyagi: Buy belt more.
- Julie Pierce: No, I mean a karate belt. Brown belt, black belt.
- Miyagi: Why need belt?
- Julie Pierce: So everyone knows I'm good!
- Miyagi: You know you good. That important thing.”
Hilary Swank - Julie Pierce
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Julie Pierce: Even Elvis Presley got a black belt.
- Miyagi: Borrow from Elvis next time see him.”

Hilary Swank - Julie Pierce
Pat Morita - Miyagi

- Miyagi: Banzai!
- Daniel: [totally confused] To baby trees.
- Miyagi: Not bonsai, "banzai"!

Pat Morita - Miyagi
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso

“- Julie Pierce: What's going on?
- Miyagi: Nothing. Just monks having good time.
- Julie Pierce: I thought they were supposed to be spiritual...
- Miyagi: Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.”
Hilary Swank - Julie Pierce
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Daniel: When do I learn how to punch?
- Miyagi: Better learn balance. Balance is key. Balance good, karate good. Everything good. Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Daniel: I don't know if I know enough karate.
- Miyagi: Feeling correct.
- Daniel: You sure know how to make a guy feel confident.
- Miyagi: You trust the quality of what you know, not quantity.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“Fighting always last answer to problem.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

- Investigator Fujitsuka Natsuo: Isn't someone going to hear that and call the police?
- Detective Tony Costas: No, you see in this neighborhood they don't call the police, they just yell "Turn that shit off".

Pat Morita - Investigator Fujitsuka Natsuo
Jay Leno - Detective Tony Costas