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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise.

I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar

It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.