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 always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

When I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.

The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Truth is it's own witness.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas

How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.