Helio Gracie

"Always Assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger, and faster than you. So, you have to learn to rely on technique, timing, and leverage rather than brute strength"

- Helio Gracie

"I created Jiu-Jitsu, what is now referred to as Jiu-Jitsu, which is exactly the best fighting system that exists."

- Helio Gracie

"Learning jiu-jitsu is something for the subconscious, not for the consciousness."

- Helio Gracie

"Many styles of martial arts carried on that tradition and required that practitioners bow as a sign of respect."

- Helio Gracie

"The Jiu-Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong."

- Helio Gracie

"Jiu-Jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force."

- Helio Gracie

"Jiu Jitsu is for everyone, anyone can learn: men or women. It enhances anyone’s physical potential."

- Helio Gracie

"Jiu-Jitsu is for the protection of the individual, the older man, the weak, the child, the lady, and the young woman from being dominated and hurt by some bum because they don’t have the physical attributes to defend themselves. Like I never had."

- Helio Gracie

"I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose."

- Helio Gracie

"Traditionally, a kimono or “gi” is worn to simulate the clothing one would be wearing on the street, such as a jacket, coat, or shirt."

- Helio Gracie

"A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defence is made to neutralise aggression."

- Helio Gracie

"Since my initial involvement with jiu-jitsu, because of my lack of strength, my objective has been to have maximum effectiveness in the simplest and most effortless way possible. I did not spend my life trying to improve a system that would make me look good at a sport competition, full of fancy spins and colorful turns. Instead, I have developed a self-defense method that is complete, easy, and effective."

- Helio Gracie

"As I have said many times, I did not invent jiu jitsu, I just made it better."

- Helio Gracie

"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

"My jiu jitsu hasn’t changed. Ever since I started 75 years ago, it hasn’t changed at all. There are so many people practicing today that there is going to be a chance for people to invent their own way and try to make it better. But that doesn’t alter the product."

- Helio Gracie

"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

"Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life."

- Helio Gracie

"The value jiu-jitsu has for me is priceless, nothing can pay for it because it gives us a sense of tranquility and peace."

- Helio Gracie

"You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone."

- Helio Gracie