Jiu Jitsu Quotes
Jiu Jitsu Quote of the day
Sometimes, you don't have to win, you cannot win. but that has nothing to do with losing.
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.
If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.
I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.
When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'
I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.
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.
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.
Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.
We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.
I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.
Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.
Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option
Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand.
There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way
For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.
Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.
Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.
Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.
It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.
This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.
When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.
The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.
My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.
The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?
Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.
Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.
We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.
Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.
Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.
An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.
Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.
I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.