Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.

If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

There is no reward without sacrifice.

If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.

You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.

If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.

Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life.

Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.