Quotes About Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

#1. I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.

Spencer Pratt

#2. I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

#3. In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand.

Chris Matakas

#4. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

Chris Matakas

#5. Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken.

Chris Matakas

#6. It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

Chris Matakas

#7. I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.

Chris Matakas

#8. We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

Chris Matakas

#9. In Jiu Jitsu an inch is a mile, and a second is an eternity. Use each wisely.

Chris Matakas

#10. Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.

Chris Matakas

#11. Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.

Chris Matakas

#12. Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man.

Chris Matakas

#13. Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever.

Martin Edwards

#14. This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

Chris Matakas

#15. Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.

Chris Matakas

#16. All of Jiu Jitsu is finding a way to get your partner to willingly go where you want him to go in the first place.

Chris Matakas

#17. Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand.

Chris Matakas

#18. By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

Chris Matakas

#19. We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.

Chris Matakas

#20. We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#21. The day you stop dreaming, you stop creating the future as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. 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.

Saulo Ribeiro

#23. We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Bobby Riggs

#24. It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

Nadine Velazquez

#25. We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge.

Chris Matakas

#26. Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Joseph Joubert

#27. Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

Chris Matakas