Helio Gracie Quotes

• Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Stronger, Technique

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• Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

  Helio Gracie

  Philosophy, Faces, Jiu Jitsu

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• The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Strong, Giving

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• Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

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  Art, Play, Doe

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• I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

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  Art, Opponents, Martial Arts

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• For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Pain, Sleep

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• A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

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  Art, Real, People

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• To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

  Helio Gracie

  Basketball, Art, Mma

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• Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Jiu Jitsu, Efficiency

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• You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

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  Art, Purpose, Should

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• For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

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  Art, Guy, Tough

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• Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Thinking, Answers

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• I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Facts, Wanted

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• I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

  Helio Gracie

  Sports, Blood, Names

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• If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

  Helio Gracie

  Fighting, Doe, Including

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