Best BJJ Quote’s

My Top 50 BJJ Quotes Of All Time

Helio Gracie

1, ☆ – Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

2, ☆ – The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

3, ☆ – For the choke, there are no “tough guys”. With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

4, ☆ – Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

Marcelo Garcia

5, ☆ – 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

6, ☆ – I always try to attack. While I’m on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

7, ☆ – Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I’d rather be.

8, ☆ –“When you are a beginner in Jiu Jitsu nothing makes sense to you for a while. But then at that moment you really learn one technique, a whole world opens up to you”

Mikey Musumeci

9, ☆ – ” MY BIGGEST FEAR ISN’T COMPETING WITH ANYONE, MY BIGGEST FEAR IS I STOP COMPETING WITH MYSELF “

10, ☆ – “For myself, with titles, it’s not about winning titles anymore. What it’s about is inspiring and helping people, having an impact on others so that they can overcome whatever obstacles they have in life,”

Bernardo Faria

11, ☆ – “I believe that the biggest advice is don’t have ego when you are training. Just keep focused on what you are doing and always keep trying to improve, improve, improve!”

12, ☆ – “HUGE HONOR FOR ME”

13, ☆ – “I want to see my Jiu Jitsu evolve at all times and I want to be better today than I was yesterday in everything I do, not just in competitions”

14, ☆ – “What works best for me was training Jiu Jitsu twice per day, and during sparring to go as hard as I could with the toughest guys. That was my formula”

John Danahar

15, ☆ – “Training is about skill development, not about winning or losing. You don’t need to win every battle, you only need to win the battles that count.”

16, ☆ – “Don’t listen to what people say. Watch what the best people do. It’s not how much you know that counts, but how much you can recall under stress.”

17, ☆ – “There’s no shame in losing to a black belt when you’re a white belt, but when you have very similar skill levels, you’re going to come back to the techniques that are most likely to get you a win.”

18, ☆ – “Keep working hard at whatever level you currently are – keep your mind on technique and tactics, your energy on your workouts, and your vision on your dreams!”

Eddie Bravo

19, ☆ – “Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. …We train no – gi all the time.”

20, ☆ – “I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.”

Roger Gracie

21, ☆ – “People perceive fighting in different ways. One may see the primal nature of fighting, and another the artistic nature of fighting. I see it as a pure artistic way that a true martial artist can display his art.”

22, ☆ –“Don’t practice until you can get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong”

23, ☆ –“It is like climbing a ladder. I am always going higher in terms of control I have over him and I never allow him to make me take a step back. The end of the ladder is the submission”

Keenan Cornelius

24, ☆ – “If you’re thinking about what to do next, your competitor is already moving to his next move. It’s best to just react and let your body take over.”

Kurt Osiander

25, ☆ – “I have something to show you guys and don’t worry it’s not my dick”

26, ☆ – “you f*cked up along time ago..”

27, ☆ – “You cant do that, youre gonna get choked the f*ck out”

Rickson Gracie

28, ☆ – “I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can’t even swim.”

29, ☆ – “If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.”

30, ☆ – “A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.”

31, ☆ – “If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu.”

32, ☆ – “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.”

Felipe Costa

33, ☆ -“I wasnt always a champion. In fact, I did not win any tournament until I was a Black Belt”

Felipe Costa, BJJ BlackBelt 2xWorld Champion, who travel the WORLD competing.

Jeff Glover

34, ☆ – “Take what you can find but always be on the path to their back.”

35, ☆ – “There are only negative people and positive. Who you spend your time with determines which you are.”

36, ☆ – “I don’t do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu anymore, “I do play Jiu-Jitsu” I don’t care about points, I just want to have fun”

Bruno malfacine

37, ☆ – “Jiu-Jitsu will teach you to be more patient, more tolerant, less selfish and to value friendships”

Royce Gracie

38, ☆ – “A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.”

39, ☆ – “Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer – but boxer. Not the best fighter.”

40, ☆ – “Talented people without discipline don’t go anywhere.”

Gordon Ryan

41, ☆ –“The more time you spend fighting out of bad positions in training, the more confident you become in your defense. The more confident in your defense, the more confident you will be in attacking your opponent knowing that if you end up in a bad position, you can easily recover and go right back into more attacks”

42, ☆ – “No matter who gets elected president, remember who your king is”

Ryan Hall

43, ☆ – “The Kimura is not a submission, it’s a position. Just like everything that is utilized effectively, it’s not about the thing itself, it’s about what that thing gives me”

44, ☆ – “The key to guard passing is not having one pass that you ram down the other persons throat, but being able to transition between a series of viable options until the right on presents itself”

Ryron Gracie

45, ☆ –  “When I tap, it means I’ve accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.”

Rener Gracie

46, ☆ –  “If you train worst case scenarios consistently, they will no longer be worst case scenarios”

47, ☆ –  “He who manages the distance, manages the damage.”

Renzo Gracie

48, ☆ –  “A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he’s just another meal.”

49, ☆ –  “A black belt is a white belt who never quits!”

ZEB MCKINNON

50, ☆ –  “Go out there to win every match – 100%. But if you lose, that’s OK – 100%. As long as you gave 100%.”

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