Quotes from
The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
Daniel: You could have killed him, couldn't you?Mr. Miyagi: Aiy.
Daniel: Well, Why didn't you?
Mr. Miyagi: Because Daniel, for man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death.
[Walking through the Okinawa airport, Daniel and Miyagi find a poster advertising Sato's karate school. The poster shows Sato breaking a log with his bare hands]
Daniel: You think you could break a log like that?
Miyagi: Don't know. Never been attacked by a tree.
Daniel: If you and Sato fought, would your father be the referee?
Miyagi: No referee.
Daniel: Then how do you know who wins?
Miyagi: The one who's dead, doesn't.
Miyagi: Daniel-san, never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose.
Daniel: Don't those lies bother you?
Miyagi: no
Daniel: Why not? people might think that they are true.
Miyagi: Lies only become true if person choose to believe.
Daniel: Is that another old Okinawa saying?
Miyagi: No. New Okinawa saying.
Daniel: How new?
Miyagi: lets see...
[pauses, pretending to think]
Miyagi: About ten seconds.
[afterDaniel has won his first tournament]
Daniel: Hey Mr. Miyagi, you know I've been thinking.
Mr. Miyagi: About what, Daniel-San?
Daniel: That we should come up with some kind of strategy.
Mr. Miyagi: For what?
Daniel: My future, my whole tournament career.
Mr. Miyagi: Miyagi already have one.
Daniel: Really? What is it?
Mr. Miyagi: Early retirement.
[afterDaniel complains about having to spend the summer in Fresno]
Daniel: Hey, what are you building out there?
Mr. Miyagi: Guest room.
Daniel: Are you expecting company?
Mr. Miyagi: Nah, refugee.
Daniel: Refugee? Oh yeah, that's great. From where?
Mr. Miyagi: Fresno.
Chozen: Your student disgrace me. I have been dishonored all because of him.
Daniel: Hey, whatever happened, I apologized.
Chozen: Apology will not give me back my honor.
Daniel: Well, neither will this.
Chozen: In their eyes it will. No more talk. You cross bridge or I kill her.
[Daniel starts to cross the bridge]
Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-San, this not tournament. This for real.
[after a big fight]
Daniel: Live or die, man?
Chozen: Die.
Daniel: Wrong.
[honks Chozen's nose]
Daniel: Oh no, not again. I'm not looking for trouble.
Chozen: Maybe trouble looking for you.
Sato: So coward, you return...
Mr. Miyagi: To settle affairs with father.
Sato: And with me.
Mr. Miyagi: Sato I won't fight you.
Sato: Then you die as you have lived; a coward. You see your father, then you SEE ME.
Sato: Miyagi, I wait long time for this. No tricks tonight, or tomorrow, everything gone. Their homes. Their church. EVERYTHING. GONE
[after Miyagi's father dies]
Sato: Out of respect for my teacher, I give you three days to mourn. When finish, I come back. You prepare to join him.
[Miyagi has finally succeeded in catching a fly with his chopsticks - outside, Daniel drives up in the car Miyagi gave him for his birthday; it is sputtering and the fender is dented]
Mr. Miyagi: Ah, Daniel-san! Must've been some senior prom. What happened?
Daniel: You mean, what DIDN'T happen. First I let Ali borrow this car and she re-designs my fender. And I don't know what she's done to my engine, but that ain't running right either. You know what else she does? She tells me she's fallen in love with some football player from UCLA. Why couldn't she just lie to me or something?
Mr. Miyagi: Things could be worse.
Daniel: Don't worry, they are. Last night, my Mom tells me she got transferred by her company to their new branch... in FRESNO! I can't believe I gotta spend my entire summer vacation in FRESNO!
[Miyagi is examining the car, reaching under its hood]
Daniel: You're not gonna be able to fix that.
[No sooner are the words out of Daniel's mouth than Miyagi twists something around; now the engine runs perfectly]
Daniel: How'd you do that? What'd you do?
Daniel: [presenting Miyagi with a rosewood display case, obviously for Miyagi's WW2 medals] I got something for you here... see, it's rosewood. For your medals. I thought it'd be nice to... like, show 'em off or something.
Miyagi: Why, Daniel-san... Thank you for gift. But why show off?
Daniel: Well, you know, winning the Medal of Honor and all... It says something about you. Like, you're brave. And all that stuff.
Miyagi: [puts hand to Daniel's chest] THIS say you brave.
[motions to medal]
Miyagi: This say you LUCKY.
Daniel: Just what did you do to earn this, anyhow?
Miyagi: ...Not important anymore.
Daniel: ...Was it scary for you?
Miyagi: ...Miyagi knees no stop shaking for whole week after.
Daniel: ...Did you have to kill a lot of people or something?
Miyagi: Hai, unfortunately.
Daniel: But they were, like, the enemy... weren't they?
Miyagi: They were also PEOPLE, Danielsan.
[Daniel is at the airport, trying to talk Miyagi into taking him along to Okinawa]
Daniel: Come on, it'll give me a chance to study Okinawan History... like up close, you know.
Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-san, you never tell Miyagi you study Okinawan History before.
Daniel: Well... I just started.
[at the cannery. Daniel has ripped his shirt, and almost gotten himself killed, while perfecting Miyagi's "Swinging Drum" maneuver]
Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-san, you all right?
Daniel: Yeah... I'm sorry; that was pretty stupid, wasn't it?
Mr. Miyagi: [with a grim smile] Miyagi say that to father when same thing happen. Father agree, was stupid. Father was right.
[Chozen, wielding a butterfly knife, has crashed the O-Bon dance and taken Kumiko hostage]
Sato: Chozen, don't do this. I was wrong! HATE IS WRONG! The feud is OVER.
Chozen: [with scorn] I cannot hear you, Uncle. I am dead to you now, remember?
[showing Daniel around the Miyagi Family Dojo]
Mr. Miyagi: Aha... here are the Two Rules of Miyagi-Ryu Karate. Rule Number One: "Karate for defense only." Rule Number Two: "First learn Rule Number One."
[Miyagi has given Daniel a drum toy]
Daniel: This is the secret of your family's karate?
Mr. Miyagi: Hai.
Daniel: I don't get it.
Mr. Miyagi: Practice, you will.
[the day after Miyagi's father's funeral]
Daniel: I don't get something. If Sato hates you so much, why does he give you time to mourn?
Mr. Miyagi: Because, Daniel-san, Miyagi father was Sato teacher. Deep in heart, Sato still know right from wrong.
Daniel: Then why does he still want to kill you?
Mr. Miyagi: [shrugging] ... Because sometimes, what heart know, head forget.
Miyagi's father: [upon seeing his son again after so many years] If I am dreaming, let me never awaken. If I am awake, let me never sleep.
[Miyagi is sitting by himself near the beach after his father's funeral; Daniel comes and sits with him]
Daniel: You know... When MY father died, I spent a lot of time thinking I hadn't been such a great son. It seemed to me like I could have listened to him a little more, spent a little more time with him... I felt so guilty, you know, like he did everything for me and I didn't do anything for him. Then one day it occurred to me... that I did the greatest thing of all for him just before he died: I was there with him, and I held his hand, and I said goodbye.
[Kreese breaks both hands after throwing missed punches at Miyagi; Miyagi forces him to his knees and draws back his hand for a death blow to the face]
Mr. Miyagi: [repeating Kreese's words] Mercy is for the weak. We do not train to be merciful here. A man face you, he is enemy. Enemy deserve no mercy.
[He lets out a karate yell and throws the chop, stopping his hand an inch away from Kreese's face. He honks Kreese's nose, then walks away. Kreese collapses]
Kumiko: [after Daniel offers to take Kumiko to America with him] But this is my home.
Daniel: Home is where you hang your hat.
Kumiko: Do you think that I would like America?
Daniel: I think you'd love it.
Kumiko: Do you think that it would love me?
Daniel: Well, I know one part of it that already does.
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