“I created Jiu-Jitsu, what is now referred to as Jiu-Jitsu, which is exactly the best fighting system that exists.”
"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
Awareness
"Learning jiu-jitsu is something for the subconscious, not for the consciousness."
- Helio Gracie
Learning
"Many styles of martial arts carried on that tradition and required that practitioners bow as a sign of respect."
- Helio Gracie
Respect
"The Jiu-Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong."
- Helio Gracie
Empowerment
"Jiu-Jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force."
- Helio Gracie
Empowerment
"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."
- Beauty and the Beast
Belief
"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."
- Beauty and the Beast
Belief
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Buddha
Belief
"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."
- Might Guy
Belief
"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
- Josephus Daniels
Belief