Jitsu Quotes
Collection of top 69 famous quotes about Jitsu
Jitsu Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Jitsu quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.
— Chris Matakas
Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.
— Chris Matakas
If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu ...
— Rickson Gracie
A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.
— Helio Gracie
All successful people live how great guard passers pass.
— Chris Matakas
Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention.
— Chris Matakas
When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'
— Rener Gracie
I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.
— Spencer Pratt
By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.
— Matt Serra
I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.
— Ryron Gracie
We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.
— Chris Matakas
We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.
— Chris Matakas
There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.
— Carlos Gracie Jr.
Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.
— Chris Matakas
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
— David Mamet
Spend more time in a Jiu Jitsu gi than in street clothes.
— Ryron Gracie
All of Jiu Jitsu is finding a way to get your partner to willingly go where you want him to go in the first place.
— Chris Matakas
Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn ... I did cardio before cardio was cool.
— Theodore Roosevelt
This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.
— Chris Matakas
There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.
— Chris Matakas
When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.
— Junior Dos Santos
Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.
— Chris Matakas
I had no desire of being professionally successful. No desire for material wealth. All I wanted out of life was Jiu Jitsu.
— Chris Matakas
Sometimes, you don't have to win, you cannot win. but that has nothing to do with losing.
— Rickson Gracie
I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.
— Saulo Ribeiro
This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it.
— Chris Matakas
I train because it makes every area of my life better, and it makes me better at every area of my life.
— Chris Matakas
Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.
— Chris Matakas
I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.
— Chris Matakas
The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?
— Chris Matakas
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
— Helio Gracie
An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.
— Chris Matakas
For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.
— Chris Matakas
When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.
— Chris Matakas
Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.
— Chris Matakas
For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.
— Ricardo Liborio
Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.
— Chris Matakas
Learn Gracie Jiu-Jitsu so that when a giant walks by, you don't think to yourself 'oh no,' you think to yourself 'how interesting!
— Rener Gracie
I don't even know how to swim!
— Lea Thompson
We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.
— Chris Matakas
Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu Jitsu is basic training for life. We are training not to learn how to fight, but how to live.
— Chris Matakas
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
— Helio Gracie
I work free-weights and do circuit training with my trainer 4-5 times a week. I also train in Brazilian Ju Jitsu several times a week.
— Jonathan Lipnicki
The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.
— Helio Gracie
