I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

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

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

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

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

Flirtation: attention without intention.

Comedy is king. It has to be.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.