Top 27 Helio Gracie Quotes
#1. To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#2. Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.
Helio Gracie
#3. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
James Russell Lowell
#4. You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.
Helio Gracie
#5. We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.
Andrew Miller
#6. I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.
Jenny Slate
#7. Life is totally subjective which means you and your Creator need to have a long talk about your attitudes and behaviors. It's your serve?
Mary Barton Wilcox
#8. I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.
Helio Gracie
#9. At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.
Kobe Bryant
#10. Those who have teachable spirit get wiser and wiser daily.
Euginia Herlihy
#11. If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.
Helio Gracie
#12. Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
Helio Gracie
#13. Your Holiness, elite education makes us arrogant, conceited. It makes us think we are the answers to everything. You know what this expensive education does to us? It destroys us.
Dalai Lama XIV
#14. 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
Helio Gracie
#15. Please keep in mind that no matter how strong, fast or coordinated you are, there is always someone stronger, faster and more coordinated.
Helio Gracie
#16. My love for him burns on, unflinching and intense.
Nina Rossing
#17. Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
Helio Gracie
#18. A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.
Helio Gracie
#19. Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.
Helio Gracie
#21. I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.
Helio Gracie
#23. I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.
Helio Gracie
#24. 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.
Helio Gracie
#25. To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.
Helio Gracie
#26. It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
Scottie Pippen
#27. The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.
Helio Gracie
