The Karate Kid Quotes

Daniel: [throwing his bicycle into a dumpster after being beaten up] This damn bike! I hate this bike. I hate this frickin' bike! Stupid bike.
Lucille Larusso: Daniel! What's the matter? Why did you throw your bike away?
Daniel: Because I felt like it.
Lucille Larusso: Please look at me when I'm talking to you. [sees Daniel's bruised face]
Lucille Larusso: Oh my god!
Daniel: Mom.
Lucille Larusso: Can you tell me what's going on and don't tell me about another bike accident?
Daniel: What do you want to hear mom?
Lucille Larusso: I want to hear the truth!
Daniel: No you don't want to hear the truth. All you want to hear about is how great it is. Well it may be great for you but it SUCKS for me! I hate this place! I HATE IT! I just want to go home. Why can't we just go home?
Lucille Larusso: Listen to me. I cannot help you unless you talk to me
Daniel: I gotta take karate. That's it.
Lucille Larusso: You took karate!
Daniel: No, not at the Y. At a good school.
Lucille Larusso: But fighting doesn't solve anything Daniel.
Daniel: Yeah well neither does palm trees mom.
Lucille Larusso: That's not fair!
Daniel: Like it was fair coming over here without asking me how I felt about it. Right, that was real fair.
Lucille Larusso: You're right. I should've asked.
Daniel: Well I just want to go home. That's it. I don't understand the rules here and I just want to go home.
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Julie Pierce: What's going on?
Sergeant Kesuke Miyagi: Nothing. Just monks having good time.
Julie Pierce: I thought they were supposed to be spiritual
Sergeant Kesuke Miyagi: Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.

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Mike Barnes: Come on, get up! Get on that line! Get on that line, LaRusso! You're worthless! Your slope teacher's nothing! Get up, man! You're no champion! Get up! You suck, LaRusso! You suck, man! And your teacher's karate shit! You hear me! It's shit! [Daniel looks over at Silver and Kreese]
Mike Barnes: You're a joke, LaRusso! Your karate's a joke and your teacher isn't worth shit! He's nothing! He's nothing! And you're nothing! I own you! I own you, LaRusso! Where's your little Jap teacher now, huh! He's a phony, man! He's a fake! [Daniel looks over at Mr. Miyagi]
Mike Barnes: And he didn't teach you nothing! Your karate's shit! You hear me! Get up!

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Mike Barnes: Sir, you said if I come down here and beat this LaRusso kid, I can have 25 percent ownership in you new dojos? Well, to perform my best, which I fully intend to do, I'm gonna need 50 percent.
Terry Silver: Whoa... I'm afraid I can't give you any more than 35!
Mike Barnes: I guess I'll be on my way, then... nice meeting everybody. [turns to leave]
Terry Silver: Hey... [Mike turns around]
Terry Silver: ... you fight as hard as you negotiate?
Mike Barnes: Harder.
Terry Silver: All right, you got it. 50 percent.
Mike Barnes: And I can get that in writing?
Terry Silver: By noon today.
Mike Barnes: Mr. Silver, you just bought yourself a champion.

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Miyagi: Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand." Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call *kara*-te, "empty hand."
Daniel: I thought it came from Buddhist temples and stuff like that.
Miyagi: You too much TV.

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Sato: Miyagi, I wait long time for this. No tricks tonight, or tomorrow, everything gone. Their homes. Their church. EVERYTHING. GONE

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