Top 230 Jiu Jitsu Quotes & Sayings

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

I believe in my jiu-jitsu.

Chandler has fought great jiu-jitsu guys before, like Benson Henderson and my brother. He's practically impossible to submit. Of course he can get caught, but I think that's very difficult. His wrestling is a great counter to the jiu-jitsu approach, it makes it very complicated for them.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

When I came to the United States, I saw a lot of Mike Tyson. I would stay up and watch all of the Mike Tyson fights. A friend here said, 'You got to do Jiu-Jitsu. That's the thing.' I said, 'C'mon, Jiu-Jitsu would never beat Mike Tyson.' So, he showed me the Royce Gracie tape. I was so impressed with the thing.

There are lots of jiu-jitsu fighters who finish fights and have good MMA jiu-jitsu, but I think I've applied techniques which I can teach other people.

I've got great jiu-jitsu.

Really, the way to learn jiu-jitsu is to do it. If you do jiu-jitsu you get it and you learn it.

I learned boxing and jiu-jitsu from the ground up.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

I know my jiu-jitsu can save me.

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.

The NFL, boxing, jiu-jitsu - I did that. I'm proven at what I can do.

I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I'm awesome at submissions.

We fight to prove that our art, Gracie jiu-jitsu, is the best.

Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

My mom loved when I started training judo and jiu-jitsu because that wasn't hurting me. But when I took her for my first MMA fight, she was like, 'Baby, you're not really going to do this, right? To get punched in the face, please stop with that. Do jiu-jitsu, it's good, it won't get you hurt.'

My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.

We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the world. We have a lot of his instructors here, as well as Japanese jiu jitsu, Japanese judo, and sambo. That was Keanu's [Reeves] recipe [in John Wick 2].

Nobody has seen my jiu-jitsu, but I have really good jiu-jitsu. I submit black belts.

I'm a jiu-jitsu guy and that's my root.

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.

One thing I took - you know, especially from boxing at a young age - from my coach was, if you're a jiu-jitsu guy, and you only cater your training to jiu-jitsu, there's going to come a day and time in your career when you face a guy who is a great wrestler, has great takedown defense, and he's going to make you look silly.

Jiu-jitsu teaches you not to hurt your opponent, and that's inside of me.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.

I love jiu-jitsu.

Everybody that I fight always avoids jiu-jitsu.

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.

I'm the best there is in jiu-jitsu.

I need to improve my striking and my wrestling, but I always be best at jiu-jitsu.

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a beautiful thing.

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

Jiu-jitsu is something I absolutely love.

Jiu jitsu 101: make the other guy do all the work.

I don't think I need to prove to anyone how good my jiu-jitsu is.

I will fight everywhere, but I trust a lot on my jiu-jitsu.

Jiu jitsu is a great art for self-defense. But jiu jitsu alone won't get you to a world championship in the UFC or even a winning record sometimes.

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.

My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.

I need my jiu-jitsu, man.

I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.

Forget about jiu-jitsu and wrestling - I'm a boxing guy.

If you want to be the best jiu-jitsu player in the world, by all means, if you want to spend most of your time doing jiu-jitsu, that absolutely makes sense. But, for one, don't consider just because you may be the best in the world at what you do, that doesn't make what you do the best in the world.

I'm a huge UFC fan. I train. I do jiu-jitsu, taekwondo.

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

Yes, I do Jiu Jitsu for a living.

I'm originally from jiu-jitsu.

I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.

I would never say 'Demian Maia jiu-jitsu.' I created lots of things that became known, but it's all Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling and my striking.

I will continue dedicating myself to MMA in 2015, but fighting in the ADCC interests me, yes.. The Jiu-Jitsu Worlds does not interest me, I see fighters with a different goal from mine. They want to hold your sleeve, grab you and wait for time to pass. They just want to stall the game. I do not see this as a real fight, I see only as a strategy to win. For me, Jiu-Jitsu is much more than that.

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.