Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Royce Gracie - Page 2

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

I travel all over the world and teach people.

Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.

There is no age as long as the body feels good.

People always want to see who's the best fighter in the world.

I love to travel and I love to teach, so I combined the two.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

Jiu-Jitsu is the bond or styles all between all the other styles. Take Jiu-Jitsu out, a boxer is just a boxer, a kickboxer is just a kickboxer. Take Jiu-Jitsu out of the wrestling - what is he going to do, take the person down and? There's no finishing holds, there's no striking.

I live a very healthy lifestyle.

I made peace with retirement, but when you're a fighter, you're always a fighter.

Don't care about catch-wrestling. I only care about Jiu-Jitsu.

I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.

The armlock is an armlock, a choke is a choke. How you set it up - is different. Everybody have their personal style.

I did a seminar once in Pennsylvania when there was big snow, road construction, a big flood and just one person showed up. I said, 'No problem, I'll do it.' If there's one or 100 on the mat, the juice is still there.

I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy fight, even if you win in 30 seconds, that only means you were able to execute your strategy correctly and induced your opponent to make a mistake. Those are the champions. That's why they are the champions.

My grandfather was doing business with a Japanese man. In exchange of good relationship the man taught my uncles the art of jiu jitsu. My father couldn't do it because he was very weak, he couldn't do one press-up, so he just sat back and watched, and memorised. What he did was add leverage into the moves.

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

Wouldn't you love to see Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield go one more time? It's not like just one of them has aged. They've both aged. They're both icons.

The jiu-jitsu my father created was for the smaller guy to beat the bigger guy.

I like my girls delicate.

I follow a very strict diet.

I travel seven months a year, so it's a lot of hotels and airplanes. I teach about three hours a day. I always go for a run. I try to lift some weights if I have the time and the strength. But running and teaching, that's my life.

When Scott Coker first mentioned to me that Ken Shamrock wanted to fight I said, 'Thank you.' I played a little hard to get, but for sure I knew we had to do the third fight with Ken; there was no doubt. He still insisted on fighting me. I guess the guy cannot sleep for 22 years.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

I'm a prize fighter. Put me in any card and I'll sell it out. I can do it, man.

Gracie is not a family, it's a factory of fighters.

My father had nine kids, seven boys and two girls, and my uncle had 21 kids, 11 boys and 10 girls. They had the opportunity to teach the art of Gracie Jiu Jitsu and that's how we got involved from a young age. It's in the blood.

Sometimes you watch a tournament with a point system, and it's not the best fighter that wins. It's the guy who scores more points and then he runs away and hides.

I enjoy traveling, teaching and fighting. It's in my blood.

McGregor is taking Muhammad Ali's model. He can say whatever he wants but he's got to prove it. If he doesn't prove it, his career is going to be short.

I never picked an opponent.

In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.

In a street fight there is no time-limit, no weight division, you don't choose your opponent.

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

If I had doubts, I would've never walked into the ring.

If I'm home, just hanging around with the kids.

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.

A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.

The losses are good... if you learn something.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

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

People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can’t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.

My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol - no smoking - Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I say that is because smoking and alcohol put a lot of effort on your body. Your lungs. Your liver. Your stomach. These things will make you suffer, man.

Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.