John Danaher

"Anger just makes people inefficient. Their breathing gets shallow, they’re too muscularly tense; they gas faster."

- John Danaher

"Only when there is a danger of submissions will it be easier to work your way to better positions"

- John Danaher

"I’ve always felt that the greatest times of joy in my life always came from helping other people get to their goals, rather than any goals that I might have achieved in my own life"

- John Danaher

"Fights are not won on drama. Fights are won on small, mundane details"

- John Danaher

"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."

- John Danaher

"Learning how to learn is absolutely one of the keys to success in life in general and sport Jiu Jitsu in particular"

- John Danaher

"The deepest benefits of Jiu-Jitsu come off the mat. It encourages a worldview based upon the idea of rational problem-solving. Jiu-Jitsu is all about solving problems that are rapidly changing under stress, and that gives you an ability to identify the crux of the problem in front of you, even in a stressful situation, and adapt your body and tactics to overcome that problem and continue overcoming it as the problem itself changes. It encourages you to use a very rational trial-and-error method, basically, the same method that science uses to overcome these problems. So it gives you this sort of problem-solving mindset, which I think applies throughout life itself."

- John Danaher

"No matter how stressful the situation you find yourself to be in, realize that success will come in the form of technical solutions to problems, not appeals to our emotional side"

- John Danaher

"This is like a perfect Darwinian game. You have a large gene pool of people who come in on their first day of training and ten years later that pool is shrunk to the most competitive, most wiley, most adaptive, and evolved of the people in that room. Some would say the most insane, who knows?"

- John Danaher

"Jiu jitsu is the science and art of control that leads to submission."

- John Danaher

"The essential characteristic of jiu jitsu is very simple. It’s the science and art of control that leads to submission."

- John Danaher

"It’s such an honest and open form of competition, your whole body, spirit and mind, against another person’s, where there is a clear and definitive winner."

- John Danaher

"The deepest benefits of Jiu Jitsu come off the mat. It encourages a worldview based upon the idea of rational problem-solving. Jiu Jitsu is all about solving problems that are rapidly changing under stress"

- John Danaher

"The essential characteristic of jiu-jitsu is very simple. It’s the science and art of control that leads to submission."

- John Danaher