Adaptation Quotes

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way."

- George Evans

"Wrestling is ballet with violence."

- Jesse Ventura

"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy."

- Dan Gable

"Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions."

- Rowdy Roddy Piper

"It's not about what happens to you, it's about what you do about it."

- Sting

"You have to adapt to any situation and stay one step ahead of your opponent. It's a mental game as much as a physical one."

- John Smith

"You must adapt to any situation and overcome any challenge. The mind is the key to staying one step ahead of your opponent."

- John Smith

"Don’t fight your opponent, fight his moves."

- Carlos Gracie Jr.

"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

"The mountain-sea spirit that it is bad to repeat the same thing several times when fighting the enemy. There may be no help but to do something twice, but do not try it a third time. If you once make an attack and fail, there is little chance of success if you use the same approach again. If you attempt a technique that you have previously tried unsuccessfully and fail yet again, then you must change your attacking method."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"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

"If you guys attach to each other very hard, and hold each other very tight what happens is you don’t move, your opponent doesn’t move. Nothing happens in the training. That’s not Gracie Jiu-jitsu. The real Gracie Jiu-jitsu – you don’t hold tight, you kind of hold the opponent with open hands. You let him move and after that you counter him. It is 100% counterattacks. Helio Gracie was light – 140 lbs. – and was able to perform moves against much larger opponents because he brought those tricks to make the opponent commit himself to a move first so you always catch an opponent off guard. It is a very intelligent way to let somebody move first, in an empty move, you let him go first. You no longer there to receive the move; now you are doing your own move in an empty body, an unprepared body. Thy at is the idea."

- Pedro Sauer

"Jiu-jitsu is not the art of hitting, it’s the art of not getting hit"

- Royce Gracie

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."

- Earl Wilson

"It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick."

- Kobe Bryant

"Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to."

- Kobe Bryant

"February: the month where I count down the days until I can complain about the heat instead of the cold."

"February is proof that even the shortest month can feel like the longest Monday of the year."

"In February, my winter coat becomes both a fashion statement and a security blanket."

"February: where the only thing scarier than a horror movie is checking your heating bill."

"February is like a bad haircut: you just have to wait it out and hope it grows on you."

"In February, I'm torn between wanting to hibernate like a bear and socialize like a butterfly."

"I can’t believe it’s already February. Wasn’t it just Christmas yesterday?"

"February is the shortest month because it knows we can’t handle much more winter."

"February: The month where we all pretend we love winter activities."

"Expect the unexpected. Be open minded."

"If hitting were easy, they'd call it golf."

"Sometimes, the only difference between a strikeout and a home run is the weather."

"Baseball is a funny game – it's a marathon, not a sprint."