Jiu Jitsu Quotes - Page 2

• If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Strength, Art, Tired

  "Saulo Ribeiro: 'We Should Drop The 'Brazilian' in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'". Jits Magazine Interview (translated from French), www.bjjee.com. February 11, 2016.

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• There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

  Renzo Gracie

  Philosophy, School, Ivy

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• Why do I beat a lot of people? Because I love it so much, that’s why.  Everything about Jiu Jitsu, I love it – the school, the mat, the ring.  I always believe that.  Maybe I am not better than my opponent, but I know for sure I love my training more.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Believe, School, People

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• The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

  Royce Gracie

  Ideas, Giving, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Competition, Training, Variety

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.

  Spencer Pratt

  Boxing, Honor, Training

  Source: www.complex.com

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• My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Spiritual, Art, Growing Up

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• The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Opponents

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• The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.

  Kano Jigoro

  Wind, Practice, Mma

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• A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

  Renzo Gracie

  Sharks, Land, Tanks

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• For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

  Ricardo Liborio

  Art, Humble, Forward In Life

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• Learn Gracie Jiu-Jitsu so that when a giant walks by, you don't think to yourself 'oh no,' you think to yourself 'how interesting!

  Rener Gracie

  Thinking, Interesting, Giants

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• I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

  Gunnar Nelson

  Mma, Distraction, Persons

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• Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.

  Conor McGregor

  Morning, Sleep, Wrestling

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just threw meat at her and she's happy on a 100 percent protein diet, so we seldom ate together.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Wife, Together, Meat

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm training at everything. Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, striking. Everything. I think to be in the UFC, you have to be well rounded at everything. That's the goal.

  CM Punk

  Wrestling, Thinking, Ufc

  "Cm Punk On Bringing New Eyes To Ufc, Fan Concerns And Thriving Under Pressure". Interview With Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. December 19, 2014.

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• The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned, and for the greater a sum. Since people regularly dispose of their intelligence in their rush to be swindled, and then turn right around and do it again, humans must want to be duped. Institutionalized wishful thinking - the stock market, religion, advertising - is after all a cornerstone of our system.

  Luc Sante

  Thinking, People, Greed

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.

  Johny Hendricks

  Thinking, Games, Vegas

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The only guys that make it through are the guys that make it through are the guys that have a complete control of their ego where they tap out in the beginning, all the time, you're always losing in the beginning... Your ego can get bruised if you don't have control of it. So what ends up happens is Jiu Jitsu is the ultimate douchebag filter.

  Eddie Bravo

  Mma, Guy, Ego

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• When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

  Anderson Silva

  Kids, Training, Rolling

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• I don't know Jiu-Jitsu, I don't know wrestling, all I know is how to fight. Period.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Wrestling, Fighting

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• The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim.

  Carlos Machado

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.

  Chael Sonnen

  Brother, Home, Cutting

  "Anderson Silva: Chael Sonnen not that evolved". Interview with Carlos Eduardo Ozório, www.mixedmartialarts.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I don't even know how to swim!

  Lea Thompson

  Swim, Know How, Knows

  Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

  Mike Goldberg

  Jordan

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