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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

We are not practicing Jiu Jitsu to learn how to fight, we are learning how to live. — Chris Matakas

All successful people live how great guard passers pass. — Chris Matakas

Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention. — Chris Matakas

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

Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods. — Chris Matakas

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself. — Chris Matakas

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is. — Chris Matakas

We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place. — Chris Matakas

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life. — Chris Matakas

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

In Jiu Jitsu an inch is a mile, and a second is an eternity. Use each wisely. — Chris Matakas

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day. — 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

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

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

To achieve anything we must grind, but to enjoy anything we must flow. — Chris Matakas

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

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations. — Chris Matakas

The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu; it was to master myself. — 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

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides. — 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

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist. — Chris Matakas

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

Jiu Jitsu is basic training for life. We are training not to learn how to fight, but how to live. — 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

This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it. — Chris Matakas

Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society. — Chris Matakas

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. — Chris Matakas

We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll. — Chris Matakas

I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu. — Chris Matakas

Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade. — Chris Matakas