This collection holds 20 jiu jitsu quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Rickson Gracie, Carlos Gracie, Jr. and Helio Gracie.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I don't even know how to swim!

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.

Sometimes, you don't have to win, you cannot win. but that has nothing to do with losing.

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I wasn’t a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more than anybody. I love the energy and that it gets deeper the more you study.

I did do some things different [in John Wick 2], but it's different on basically the same things. Because I have the background from the first film, it was really the first time I was doing judo and jiu-jitsu.

Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu.

I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything. I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch, but you can't really fake a judo throw. You can get help from the person who you're throwing because they can kind of launch themselves.

Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.

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