"The discipline of jujutsu should serve your life. If it stops serving you, then make an adjustment in your relationship to it."
- Roy Dean
Balance
"You start to see how the art advances your potential as a human being."
- Roy Dean
Personal Growth
"Jiu jitsu changes who you are. It gets you comfortable with change and appreciative of variation."
- Roy Dean
Personal Growth
"The demands of jiu jitsu temper your spirit in a deeply beneficial way, but it can also drain you."
- Roy Dean
Resilience
"Martial arts are difficult. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is particularly hard. People will drop out. They will quit."
- Roy Dean
Determination
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity