“The demands of jiu-jitsu temper your spirit in a deeply beneficial way, but it can also drain you.”
"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