If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

There is no reward without sacrifice.

Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.

If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.

One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ...... and drinking coffee.

Pretty thoughts= Pretty actions

Note to self: Caymen is very good at sarcasm.”“If you’re recording notes for an official record, I’d like the word ‘very’ stricken and replaced with ‘exceptionally.

Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.