1.
Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.
Rickson Gracie
2.
Sometimes, you don't have to win, you cannot win. but that has nothing to do with losing.
Rickson Gracie
At times, success is not essential, defeat is not inevitable.
3.
Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.
Helio Gracie
Jiu-Jitsu is akin to a creed. It assists me in comprehending how to confront life.
4.
If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu.
Rickson Gracie
5.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
Helio Gracie
6.
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.
Marcelo Garcia
7.
I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.
Ryron Gracie
8.
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves
Rorion Gracie
11.
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.
Carlos Gracie, Jr.
12.
I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything. I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch, but you can't really fake a judo throw. You can get help from the person who you're throwing because they can kind of launch themselves.
Keanu Reeves
13.
Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.
Matt Serra
14.
Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.
Joe Rogan
16.
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
17.
I did do some things different [in John Wick 2], but it's different on basically the same things. Because I have the background from the first film, it was really the first time I was doing judo and jiu-jitsu.
Keanu Reeves
18.
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
David Mamet
19.
Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Mike Goldberg
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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