Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Royce Gracie
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian athlete Royce Gracie.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Bellator and Viacom want to give fans exciting fights and enable fighters to continue to grow and most importantly provide for their family, and it's something I want to be a part of.
I get stopped at the airports by just everyday people that are not even fans of the MMA and they say how they have seen me fight. Its very humbling and also rewarding.
I'm a MMA fighter, man. I'm a MMA fighter, all the way.
You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.
You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.
I like guys who can use strategy, not just tough guys.
That's why I like Demian Maia and Fabricio Werdum. Demian will take you down and do his game. Werdum learned the stand-up to know what's coming, but he never stopped using his jiu-jitsu. He will clinch, take you down and submit you.
Do this rubber guard stuff and I'll punch you in the nose.
I only sign one fight at a time.
I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.
I have such a big family, sometimes, I was wondering, when is it going to be my turn? There's always a brother who's older, younger, bigger, stronger, faster, I was like, 'hey, give me a chance guys.'
Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.
The UFC was my home and will always be my home. I helped creating and building that home.
You have to work on your stand-up to know what's coming, but jiu-jitsu is enough to win the fight.
My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.
Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.
You have tons of talents everywhere you go, so you can't be stuck to only one promotion.
I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.
You have to know when to stop in this sport. It's very hard.
My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.
Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.
Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.
The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament style. It's for a street-fight situation.
When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.
The greatest tribute you can to pay to my father is to continue to train and share Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, remembering to never lose sight of the fact that what you do off the matt counts more than what you do on the matt.
I am a product of my father's work.
It's always a pleasure to watch a Gracie winning. We were born fighting.
I've never had a fight in the street.
My father created this whole MMA thing.
There's so much talent in Brazil, so many guys that will probably never get discovered.
In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.
I'm a vale-tudo fighter.
It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.
GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he's good in standup and good at grappling.
I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.
I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.
I could live on fruits.
My second fight at UFC 1, I fought Ken Shamrock. In the fight I choked him. As soon as he tapped, I let go. He tried to continue, but the ref got kind of stuck like, 'should I let it go or stop the fight.' That's when I looked at the ref and I said, let it go, we're going to continue.
I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.
The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.
If Gerard Gordeau would have won the first UFC, everybody would be learning savate.
Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.
If Teila Tuli won the first UFC, everybody would have been learning sumo.
I take all the opportunities that come my way and I am thankful that I have them.
Face life's challenges with confidence, dare to pursue your dreams and live to the fullest just as my father did.
My brother, who created the UFC, had a vision. He knew that people wanted to see who was the best fighter. People have curiosity, what style was the best? Boxing, wrestling, Gracie jiujitsu? It was a quest to find out.
Demian Maia, I love the way he fights.
I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson? I'm going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.
When you're a fighter, you have to be ready all the time. There's no 'I need a month.' It's always time.
I don't drink, I don't smoke.
You're a warrior or you're not.
OK, if he's a grappler, good for me, I know what to do. If he's a kickboxer, I gotta get in a clinch and move a certain way. If he's a karate man, he moves a different way, but I'm still going to have to clinch. So, a sumo wrestler, I have to clinch. It's just, how I get there, how I move it.
If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?
GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.
That's good when the guy has confidence. It's not bad. I want to fight someone who thinks like that.
Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don't have to be strong. You don't have to be fast.
Yes, I do Jiu Jitsu for a living.
A lot of fighters complain, 'Man he's five pounds heavier than me.' Really? It doesn't matter, man.
I fight because I want to not because I have to.
We fight to prove that our art, Gracie jiu-jitsu, is the best.
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