Pat MoritaQuotes

Official: Hold it. Only teachers and students on the competition floor. I'm sorry.

Daniel: Oh, but he doesn't speak English and I can't understand his instructions without her. She's his translator.

Official: What did he say?

Ali: He said you reminded him of an uncle of his in Tokyo.

Official: [flattered] Well, I guess it is all right.

Official: What's that?

Ali: He says you're very kind.

Official: Thank you.

Mr. Miyagi: Welcome.

Daniel: You're the best friend I've ever had!

Mr. Miyagi: [chuckles] You... pretty OK, too. Go, find balance.

Mr. Miyagi: Banzai, Daniel-san!

Daniel: Hey, banzai!

Mr. Miyagi: [beat; then; louder] Banzai!

Daniel: [louder] Banzai!

Mr. Miyagi: [shouts] Banzai!

Daniel: [shouts back] Banzai!

Daniel: I'm just scared. You know, the tournament and everything...

Mr. Miyagi: You remember lesson about balance?

Daniel: Yeah.

Mr. Miyagi: Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better.

Mr. Miyagi: [on Daniel's birthday, after having already given him his present, the karate gi he will wear at the tournament] Go outside. Something show you.

Daniel: What?

Mr. Miyagi: [leads Daniel outside] Number two present.

Daniel: [walking and talking; Miyagi keeps walking, silently] Number two present? You don't have to give me anything. You've given me enough already. No really, I'm serious.

Mr. Miyagi: [stops and points to his fleet of antique cars] Choose.

Daniel: [surprised and hesitant] Oh, no...

Mr. Miyagi: [points again] Hai! Hurt old man feeling. Choose.

Daniel: What were you doing on those stumps over there?

Mr. Miyagi: Called crane technique.

Daniel: Does it work?

Mr. Miyagi: If do right, no can defense.

Daniel: Could you teach me?

Mr. Miyagi: First learn stand, then learn fly. Nature rule, Daniel-san, not mine.

Daniel: Where did you learn it from?

Mr. Miyagi: Father teach.

Daniel: You must have had some father, man

Mr. Miyagi: Oh, yes.

Mr. Miyagi: Excuse me, please. Boy cold. Must leave. Kindly remove bottles.

Drunk: Kindly do it yourself, Mr. Moto!

Daniel: How did you do that? How did you do that?

Mr. Miyagi: Don't know. First time.

Mr. Miyagi: Oop. Miss spot.

Daniel: What spot? Hey, how come you didn't tell me you were going fishing?

Mr. Miyagi: You not here when I go.

Daniel: Maybe I would've like to have gone. You ever think about that?

Mr. Miyagi: You karate training.

Daniel: I'm WHAT?! I'm being your goddamn slave man is what I'm being! Now we made a deal here.

Mr. Miyagi: So?

Daniel: So? So you're supposed to teach and I'm supposed to learn remember? For four days, I've been busting my ass and I haven't learned a goddamn thing!

Mr. Miyagi: Hah, learn plenty!

Daniel: I've learned plenty! I've learned how to sand your decks maybe! How about wash your cars, paint your house, paint your fence. I've learned plenty!

Mr. Miyagi: Oh, Daniel-san not everything is as seems.

Daniel: Oh bullshit! I'm going home man!

Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-san! DANIEL-SAN!!

Daniel: What?

Mr. Miyagi: Show me sand-the-floor.

Daniel: [Mr. Miyagi claps then rubs his hands quickly; Mr. Miyagi starts massaging Daniel's arm] I can't move my arm, alright? What are you doing? What? Ow! Ow, what are you doing?

Mr. Miyagi: Now show me sand-the-floor.

Daniel: How did you do that?

Mr. Miyagi: SHOW!

Daniel: Wouldn't a fly swatter be easier?

Mr. Miyagi: Man who catch fly with chopsticks accomplish anything.

Daniel: Ever catch one?

Mr. Miyagi: Not yet.

Mr. Miyagi: Now, ready?

Daniel: Yeah, I guess so.

Mr. Miyagi: [sighs; they both kneel; makes squish gesture; makes squish gesture] Daniel-san, must talk. Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, get squished, just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes", or karate do "no". You karate do "guess so", just like grape. Understand?

Daniel: Yeah, I understand.

Mr. Miyagi: Now, ready?

Daniel: [he and Mr Miyagi stand up again] Yeah, I'm ready.

Mr. Miyagi: [Daniel scratches his nose, whilst Miyagi puts the bandana on Daniel's forehead; turns Daniel around; ties one knot in the bandana; ties another knot in the bandana; Daniel turns around again] First make sacred pact. I promise teach karate. That my part. You promise learn. I say, you do, no questions. That your part. Deal?

Daniel: [he holds his right hand out, as though expecting Miyagi to shake it. Instead, Miyagi bends down, takes the sponge out of the bucket, straightens up and thrusts the sponge into Daniel's outstretched hand] It's a deal.

Mr. Miyagi: First, wash all the car. Then wax. Wax on...

Daniel: Hey, why do I have to...?

Mr. Miyagi: Ah ah! Remember deal! No questions!

Daniel: Yeah, but...

Mr. Miyagi: [makes circular gestures with each hand; walks away, still making circular motions with hands] Hai! Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out of mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important. Wax on... wax off. Wax on... wax off.

Daniel: Hey, where did these cars come from?

Mr. Miyagi: [stops walking, turns around; turns around, resumes walking away, still muttering "Wax on, wax off" to himself and making circular gestures with his hands as he walks] Detroit!

Mr. Miyagi: Fighting always last answer to problem.

Daniel: No offense, Mr Miyajee, but I don't think you understand my problem...

Mr. Miyagi: [interrupting] Mi... ya... gi... understand problem perfect. Your friend, all karate student, eh?

Daniel: Friend? Oh, yeah, those guys.

Mr. Miyagi: Problem: attitude.

Daniel: No the problem is, I'm getting my ass kicked every other day, that's the problem.

Mr. Miyagi: Because boys have bad attitude. Karate for defense only.

Daniel: That's not what these guys are taught.

Mr. Miyagi: Hai - can see. No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.

Daniel: Oh, great, that solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school and straighten it out with the teacher, no problem.

Mr. Miyagi: Now use head for something other than target, Daniel-san.

Daniel: I was only kidding.

Mr. Miyagi: Why?

Daniel: Because I'd get killed if I showed up there.

Mr. Miyagi: Get killed anyway.

Daniel: Would you go with me?

Mr. Miyagi: No can do.

Daniel: Why? You said it was a good idea.

Mr. Miyagi: For you, good idea. For me, good idea no get involved.

Daniel: But you're already involved.

Mr. Miyagi: Very sorry.

Daniel: Well thanks for nothing then! Thanks for nothing. Like I didn't have enough problems already. Now I gotta carry your weight too. Thanks. Don't do me any more favors pal alright?

Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-san.

Daniel: What?

Mr. Miyagi: OK, I go.

Daniel: Oh thanks! Thanks Mr. Miyajee.

Mr. Miyagi: Miyagi.

Daniel: Miyagi. Hey, what kind of belt do you have?

Mr. Miyagi: [laughs] Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

Daniel: No, I meant...

Mr. Miyagi: [laughs; then, seriously; taps his head; taps his heart; points to his belt] In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants. Daniel-san, karate here. Karate here. Karate never here. Understand?

Daniel: I think so.

Mr. Miyagi: Good night, Daniel-san.

Daniel: Good night, Mr. Miyajee. Miyagi! Miyagi. Tomorrow morning?

Mr. Miyagi: Ten o'clock.

John Kreese: [notices Johnny staring at Daniel and Mr. Miyagi] We do not train to be merciful here. Mercy is for the weak. Here, in the streets, in competition. A man confronts you, he is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy- what is the problem, Mr. Lawrence?

John Kreese: I hear you jumped some of my students last night.

Mr. Miyagi: Afraid the facts mixed up.

John Kreese: Are you calling Mr. Lawrence a liar?

Mr. Miyagi: No call no one nothing.

John Kreese: What are you here for, old man?

Mr. Miyagi: Come ask leave boy alone.

John Kreese: What's the matter? The boy can't take care of his own problems?

Mr. Miyagi: One to one problem, yes. Five to one problem, too much ask anyone.

John Kreese: [to Johnny] Is that what's bothering you? The odds? Well, we can fix that. You like matching, Mr. Lawrence?

Johnny Lawrence: [eagerly] Yes, Sensei!

Mr. Miyagi: [groans] No more fighting.

John Kreese: [getting angry] This is a karate dojo, not a knitting class! You don't come into my dojo and drop a challenge and leave, old man. Now, you get your boy on the mat or you and I will have a major problem.

Mr. Miyagi: Too much advantage, your dojo.

John Kreese: Name a place.

Mr. Miyagi: [gestures with his head to the poster behind him for the All-Valley Under-18 Karate Tournament] Tournament.

John Kreese: [chuckles] You've got real nerve, old man. Real nerve. But I think we can accommodate you. Can't we, Mr. Lawrence?

Johnny Lawrence: Yes, Sensei.

John Kreese: [Johnny gets back in line] Fall in.

Mr. Miyagi: Ask one more small request.

John Kreese: [stops, annoyed] Make it fast.

Mr. Miyagi: Ask leave boy alone, to train.

John Kreese: [chuckles; to his students] You're a pushy little bastard, ain't ya? But I like that. I like that! All right, no one touches the prima donna until the tournament. Is that understood?

Cobra Kai students: YES, SENSEI!

John Kreese: [menacingly approaches Miyagi and Daniel again; points at Daniel; points at Miyagi] But you don't show, and it's open season, on him ... and you .

Daniel: How come you didn't tell me?

Mr. Miyagi: Tell you what?

Daniel: That you knew karate?

Mr. Miyagi: You never ask?

Daniel: Well, where did you learn it?

Mr. Miyagi: Father.

Daniel: But I thought he was a fisherman.

Mr. Miyagi: In Okinawa, all Miyagi know two things: fish and karate. Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand". Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call karate. "empty hand".

Daniel: I always thought it came from Buddhist temples and stuff like that.

Mr. Miyagi: You watch too much TV.

Daniel: That what my mother tells me.

Daniel Larusso: Hey Mom, how are you back in New Jersey?

Lucille Larusso: I am here with your Uncle Louie in Parsipanny. I may have to spend the whole summer with him. Oh, but my son will be starting college!

Daniel Larusso: Yeah I know Mom. Here I will put Mr. Miyagi on.

Lucille Larusso: [Uncle Louie rings a bell] Thanks. talking to Mr. Miyagi Thanks so much. Are you sure you are okay with watching after Daniel? Oh no, I have to go.

Mr. Miyagi: That is fine by me. You just help Uncle Louie. Nice mama! Good mama.

Mahi Mahi: Chief Orman have pretty big influence around here.

Jack Singer: Influence? He lives in a SHACK!

Mahi Mahi: My name Mahi. Mahi Mahi.

Jack Singer: Like the fish?

Mahi Mahi: Yeah. My father was a fisherman.

Jack Singer: My father left home when I was 5. That's why I'm named Jack, as in, "Jack tell your mother I'm just going out to get the paper.