"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