102 of the Best BJJ Quotes (With Sources) | BJJ Success (2024)

Jiu jitsu is not just movement patterns and physics, it’s an art.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 133).

Reduced to its core, jujitsu is the employment of intelligence and skill to over-come brute strength and aggression.

Renzo Gracie & John Danaher, Mastering JuJitsu (page 2)

Jiu jitsu changes who you are. It gets you comfortable with change and appreciative of variation. Jiu jitsu allows you to look at people without fear or apprehension.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 226).

Jiu jitsu transcends the mat and embraces life in a much more complete way.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

Martial arts can really bring everyone together, especially jiu jitsu. You see it in academies all across the world. So many times I’m on my mat, and I look back and I’m sitting against the wall and I just look on the mat and I look around, I see all these people together sharing their techniques, and sharing their energies, and having fun with each other.

Rafael Lovato Jr, JiuJitsu – A Way Of Life by Stuartcooperfilms

The hardness on the mat will transfer to making life easier for you in real life.

Fabio Santos, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu Jitsu can support you in terms of giving you more confidence, giving you more capacity to handle stress, handle emotions…

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

Doesn’t matter how much money you have, what possessions you have or who you are, as soon as you step on those mats you’re going to get choked.

Roberto Cyborg Abreu, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu brings so many people together into a family that I think that’s the most awesome thing about jiu jitsu, it’s the friendship that you make.

Fabio Santos, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

What I like about jiu jitsu is that unlike other forms of combat, whether that be warfare or crime, there’s no negative side to it. No one gets seriously hurt, no one’s possessions get stolen, no one’s lives get ruined or ended. It’s combat with benefits…There’s no serious loss here, the only thing that’s hurt or bruised is your ego.

John Danaher, John Danaher Interview Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

For an individual, the greatest gift that I think they get from jiu jitsu is the idea of solving problems under stress. Every second of every match you’re ever involved in in jiu jitsu is an attempt to solve the problem that my opponent is presenting to me.

John Danaher, John Danaher Interview Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

This ability to solve problems under stress is one of the most valuable things I think any human being can have.

John Danaher, John Danaher Interview Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

When you’re on the mat rolling around with somebody and drilling with somebody, training with somebody, getting to know somebody, and just in physical contact with these people every single day there’s only one thing to do and that’s to bond. You know you make this friendship, you make this brotherhood, and you’re making each other better every day. You’re helping each other, you’re picking each other up.

Jared Weiner, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

When you make friends in jiu jitsu it’s forever.

Fabio Santos, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jujutsu teaches us how to become direct, intelligent and thoughtful. Starting on the mat. Then moving out into our lives.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 228)

The guiding principle behind ju is the idea of a weaker (gentler) force overcoming a stronger force through the application of technique, or jitsu, rather than strength and aggression.

Renzo Gracie & John Danaher, Mastering JuJitsu (page 2)

Jiu jitsu helped me to understand life in a very deep way, because it’s a representation of life, but on the mat. You can express your emotions, you can express your intelligence, you can express your personality, your character. You cannot hide anything because once you’re there, you have your gi, [but] no gold watches, no security, no guns, and you have to expose yourself in a very raw way.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

Jiu jitsu teaches you to find comfort in very uncomfortable situations.

Gui Valente, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

We are adaptive creatures. Jiu jitsu keeps that spirit of adaptation alive and allows us to recognize the opportunities to act, while forging within us the courage to try.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (pages 226-227).

Jiu jitsu teaches you how to focus. How to get more accomplished with less effort. You start to see how the art advances your potential as a human being.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 226).

The evolutionary process in jiu jitsu makes you feel everytime more capable to see the underlines, to anticipate the move, to become better connected with the elements no matter if it’s physical, spiritual or mental.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

I created Jiu-Jitsu, what is now referred to as Jiu-Jitsu, which is exactly the best fighting system that exists. Because with the weight and the age that I had, I was able to fight world champions that weighed 100 kilograms.

Helio Gracie, Hélio Gracie’s last interview

The value I give, my friends and my dear reporter, the value jiu-jitsu has for me is priceless, nothing can pay for it because it gives us a sense of tranquility and peace. A tranquil man is tolerant. There is no reason for me to beat some one up if he calls me names like ugly, old, crazy or idiot; I think it’s funny. As long as he does not attack me physically, I respond fearlessly and usually a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice. Sometimes soft talk instills more fear than any scream.

Helio Gracie, Hélio Gracie’s last interview

Nothing will beat you more than life will, and I think that jiu jitsu is the better way of translating how to go through those struggles loving what you’re doing.

Roberto Cyborg Abreu, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu is not a hard thing to fall in love with right. I mean as soon as you see it and know you can apply this stuff, and you know the power of it.

Ricardo Migliarese, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

That’s the gratifying part of jiu jitsu, is to watch the people and see how they change for better. Very few people change for worse.

Fabio Santos, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu Jitsu is for everyone, anyone can learn: men or women. It enhances anyone’s physical potential, so if you want to increase your physical potential learn jiu-jitsu, because the jiu jitsu we practice is at everyone’s reach.

Helio Gracie, Hélio Gracie’s last interview

We’re not in the business of selling martial arts, we’re in the business of selling confidence. We’re in the business of transforming people…We’re in the business of transforming souls to make them shine. It’s not a sport, it’s not a martial art, it’s a lifestyle, it’s a way of living. It’s a way to improve your life.

Renzo Gracie, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu I believe is the most efficient way of fighting in any situation, in a streetfight, in a ring, inside an elevator, anywhere.

Renzo Gracie, Renzo Gracie Legacy

Every great memory I have, there was jiu jitsu involved.

Renzo Gracie, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

It puts things in perspective for sure. Because you’re constantly making yourself struggle and when you put yourself through tough times it always makes your outside life seem just that little bit easier.

Garry Tonon, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

In jiu jitsu you’re constantly reminded about how magical your body really is. Everyday you’re reminded of that. You suck at a move, and then you practice it over and over and then you get really good at it and then it becomes unconscious, it becomes magical. You can just do that every day. You’re reminded that your body can master anything if you just put it through enough reps.

Eddie Bravo, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu changes who you are. It gets you comfortable with change and appreciative of variation. Jiu jitsu allows you to look at people without fear or apprehension. You can choose to approach situations indirectly, seeing how it’s often easier to blend with others in order to achieve your goals.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 226).

How is jiu jitsu a lifestyle? People don’t understand that until they actually walk into the doors, put their gi in, jump on the mat and get bit from the bug.

Roberto Cyborg Abreu, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu, like nature, is all about the conservation of energy. In jiu jitsu ‘efficiency’ means using only as little strength and power as is required to accomplish your objectives. It means economy of motion – eliminating wasted movements and effort.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 2402)

The essential characteristic of jiu jitsu is very simple. It’s the science and art of control that leads to submission.

John Danaher, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

You cannot fight the force, you have to use the force.

Rickson Gracie, This Week In BJJ Episode 61

Jiu jitsu is more like a religion, it’s more like a lifestyle, than actually a competition aspect.

Rickson Gracie, This Week In BJJ Episode 61

Jiu jitsu doesn’t end. It goes on forever. You can always get better.

Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan – Jiujitsu Inspiration by Stuartcooperfilms

Jiu jitsu is the only martial art where it really works like in the Bruce Lee movie. Where the little guy really can beat the big guy.

Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan – Jiujitsu Inspiration by Stuartcooperfilms

Jiu jitsu is a philosophy that’s expressed physically.

Ryan Hall, Lex Fridman Podcast

If you watch jiu jitsu done well it looks like water moving around a solid structure.

Ryan Hall, Lex Fridman Podcast

What differentiates Brazilian jiu jitsu from most martial arts is the employment of positional strategy. In jiu jitsu, the position you are in relative to your opponent is paramount. A kick-boxer or a karateka is concerned with knocking out their opponent, but besides distance and angles, they do not give much thought to the position of their body in relation to their opponent’s. Jiu-Jitsu first seeks to establish a position, and then to finish the fight.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 378)

When we say jiu jitsu is a gentle art, we mean that. Jiu jitsu gives you the choice to choose to hurt someone or not.

Jean Jacques Machado, JRE MMA #73

Martial arts are difficult. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is particularly hard. People will drop out. They will quit.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 193).

The demands of jiu jitsu temper your spirit in a deeply beneficial way, but it can also drain you.

Roy Dean, Overtraining happens. Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 218).

Jiu jitsu is challenging. It’s been estimated that for every 1000 people that try it only 5 or so continue and make it to the black belt.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 99)

I never bother getting angry. I don’t need it. I don’t confuse angry with intense. I think being angry makes you tired. I perform at a high level without it.

Marcelo Garcia, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 81)

This is like a perfect Darwinian game. You have a large gene pool of people who come in on their first day of training and ten years later that pool is shrunk to the most competitive, most wiley, most adaptive and evolved of the people in that room. Some would say the most insane, who knows.

John Danaher, John Danaher Interview Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu is a live demonstration of what you’re about.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

Anger just makes people inefficient. Their breathing gets shallow, they’re too muscularly tense; they gas faster.

John Danaher, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 237)

I think the most valuable thing today I have, is to display and inform people [about] how important the invisible aspect of jiu jitsu is. It’s the fight you fight with your brain, with your spirit, but not with your physicality.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

The technique sometimes substitutes strength. It’s difficult for someone to beat me, until today.

Helio Gracie, Hélio Gracie’s last interview

Being strong and knowing jiu jitsu is a double advantage.

Helio Gracie, Helio Gracie Interview

When you train in the gi, your hips are better, sweeps are better, your escape from the mount is ten times better. With a gi on, the mounted gi has a hundred attacks, and without it, he has two or three. It’s a joke.

Renzo Gracie, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 232)

The legendary Rickson Gracie said that it wasn’t enough to beat your opponent, but that you had to make it look good too. I understand this now. The martial artist is no different from a writer or a painter. The very act of expressing himself through his art is his joy.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 2426)

For jiu jitsu, the smarter you are, the better you understand the leverage and positions and the middle.

Renzo Gracie, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 235)

The most important part of jiu jitsu is the middle of the way. It’s the path between one position and another – the transition – that makes the difference between a mediocre fighter and an unbelievable fighter.

Renzo Gracie, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 238)

Whatever you do in your life you’re going to be comparing with jiu jitsu.

Roberto Cyborg Abreu, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

I realise now that my jiu-jitsu is much simpler than when I was a purple belt. When I was a purple belt I tried the most amazing moves – I ran a marathon to get five miles away. Now everything is much clearer. You don’t waste time or strength, you just go straight to the point.

Renzo Gracie, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 238)

Training jiu-jitsu with a gi is like riding a crotch rocket through a residential neighborhood. It’s fun, no doubt about it. But training jiu-jitsu without the gi is like taking that same crotch rocket out onto the freeway. It’s faster. There is less stalling. You’ve got to slow down every once in a while for traffic, but mostly you’re in fifth gear hauling ass. This is the style of jiu-jitsu that I enjoy.

Eddie Bravo, Mastering the Rubber Guard: Jiu jitsu for Mixed Martial Arts Competition (page 26)

Strength is used in jujitsu. It can definitely help to be strong, but strength is used in an intelligent, rational manner as part of a strategy guided by efficient technique.

Renzo Gracie & John Danaher, Mastering JuJitsu (page 2)

The thing about jiu-jitsu gis is that some of them are really expensive. Don’t get caught up in how much your gi costs; it doesn’t matter how much you pay for a gi, it won’t make your jiu-jitsu any better, the only thing that will make you look good on the mat is your technique.

Mark Johnson, Jiu-Jitsu on the Brain (LOC 58)

In this sport, there is no room for hiding. You have to prove yourself and confront your ego on the mat, every single day. You cannot put on some belt, and never have to prove that you deserve it. In other sports, you can maybe stay away from competitions, but if you train Jiu Jitsu, you will still have to spar every class you attend. There is no way around it, and constantly confronting your ego like that, forcing you to be honest about yourself, is a very healthy thing.

Christian Graugart, The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter (pages 480-481).

It’s my belief that [the] highest level of jiu jitsu is encountered off the mat. Life is just one big jiu jitsu match.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 2456)

No one is going to get a black belt in this sport without some physical suffering, some aches and pains to tell their grandchildren about.

John Danaher, John Danaher Interview Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Little guys are the best to learn technique from, because they can’t rely on strength. There’s a lot of big powerful 250 lb jiu jitsu guys who are never going to develop the subtlety of technique like the Miyao brothers.

Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan – Jiu Jitsu is the Truest Martial Art

Don’t feel like you deserve things. Nobody deserves anything, you have to earn everything. You’ve got to work hard for things. I can’t stand when people come in and think they deserve things.

Jared Weiner, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

I’m a white belt that never gave up. And that’s the mentality I want my students to get. The belt is the least thing you have to worry.

Jean Jacques Machado, Jean Jacques Machado Full Interview by PlugOneTwo

From white belt through black belt, one of the things I always try to explain to people is that there’s going to be a lot of ups and downs, and it’s how you react to those downs that get you through the days, so a lot of challenges put in front of you, it’s how you react to those challenges and whether you let them mold you or you mold them.

Chris Harding, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

The discipline of jujutsu should serve your life. If it stops serving you, then make an adjustment in your relationship to it. Don’t just do more.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 227)

I don’t care about winning competitions or stripes on my belt anymore. I’m not even concerned about submitting my opponents in training. I care about moving with grace and about making my jiu jitsu as fluid and elegant as possible. I’m devoted to the very craft of it.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 2421)

I believe in diving deep into a small pool of information. For instance when you learn a new move in jiu-jitsu. Learn something on one side of the body, learn it very deeply, then learn it on the other side when you’ve developed that deep feel.

Josh Waitzkin, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 187)

I’ve been preaching the invisible jiu jitsu for a while, and now it becomes very appropriate to start to develop this kind of jiu jitsu which doesn’t translate in fight itself but translates in more self recognition. It’s the part of jiu jitsu where you start to understand how a little shift of your angle can change the whole performance of your opponent. How a little timing or deflection, or connection, can really be positive in your engagement.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

When I see you grapple, I am not impressed if you win or lose. What I want to see is your use of the fundamentals of jiu-jitsu. It does not matter how it ends. I do not care if you tap five times as long as you try to use technique.

Saulo Ribeiro, Jiu-Jitsu University (Page 13)

Ego is the biggest hindrance in reaching a high level in jiu-jitsu. Often, it is difficult to compartmentalize your ego, especially when you have to perform in front of the class. It is natural to worry about how good you look, but to be good you cannot have that mentality. Don’t try to look good! It is important that others are watching while you are failing. It only matters that you try.

Saulo Ribeiro, Jiu-Jitsu University (Page 13)

If you want to be a really good grappler, you have to learn with the gi. With a gi on, everything is so much harder – a hundred times harder. With no-gi, you take a good wrestler and in three months he understands where the danger comes from and his game will be fine. The moment you put on a gi, the opponent has handles to grip, so everything is much harder – harder to pass guard, to defend guard – so it teaches your hips to be extremely active to get out of the way.

Renzo Gracie, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 232)

For me the white belt is the most precious asset we have. This is the people we have to take care, we have to look over them, we have to make sure they learn right. They get better.

Renzo Gracie, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

If you’re an eternal whitebelt you only get better. The moment you believe you’re a master, your downfall is near. It’s like you’re closing yourself from new knowledge. In my head I’m a constant, for life white belt.

Renzo Gracie, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

There’s no shortcuts, it’s going to be a long journey if this is what you’re interested in.

Garry Tonon, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Jiu jitsu and martial arts in general, it’s not a temporary thing, it’s not a seasonal thing, it’s not a one self defence class thing. This is something that just like many other things in life, if you’d like to get good at it, if you’d like to really develop the skill, you’re going to have to work at it over and over again, day after day, and you’ll develop confidence that way. You’re going to have days where you come in and you feel terrible, and you feel like you know nothing and you feel like you haven’t made any progress, and other days you’re going to feel really good about yourself, and you’ve made a lot of progress but that’s what it takes. You can’t just show up once, or once and a while, and really believe that you’re going to develop this skill with any efficacy.

Garry Tonon, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Ego is the big reason that guys stop advancing in the sport. Because in Jiu jitsu it feels so bad when you tap. You got killed. Jiu jitsu is great because it filters out the assholes who can’t control their egos, the douche bags who can’t handle showing physical inferiority.

Eddie Bravo, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 69)

Everybody has ego. I have it too. But you have to be the black belt and the ego has to be the blue belt – you have to be controlling it.

Eddie Bravo, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 69)

In order to control your opponent, you must control yourself, and to do that, you must breathe and relax.

Mark Johnson, Jiu-Jitsu on the Brain (LOC 152)

Be patient, have fun, learn the basics. Enjoy the journey. Don’t be in a rush to get your blue belt, to get your first stripe, to get your purple belt. It’s going to come, but you have to be patient.

Jared Weiner, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

A great goal of jiu-jitsu is to be technical—not to be fast, or strong, or tough, or tricky; it is to be the master of movement; it is to know a technique so well that its pieces are no longer chunks of information regurgitated from your memory. It is you; it is effortless, you don’t think about it, you just do—and when you do it–it’s flawless.

Mark Johnson, Jiu-Jitsu on the Brain (LOC 423)

A balanced game will allow you to attack from both sides, making your skills more complete, more effective, and essentially doubling your techniques. Always drill both sides. Balance is good.

Mark Johnson, Jiu-Jitsu on the Brain (LOC 452)

Keep in mind that reading books and watching videos about jiu jitsu is not doing jiu jitsu. Just as you will never learn to swim if you don’t get wet, neither will you become a jiu jitsuka if you don’t get on the mats and train.

Nic Gregoriades, The Black Belt Blueprint: An Intelligent Approach to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (LOC 106)

Purple belt is the belt where you find yourself. You cut your teeth in this sport. Brown belt is that final refinement belt, that maturing belt. Black belt you kind of start all over again. Each new stripe, I start all over again. Try to empty my slate completely and relearn jiu jitsu as if I’m brand new at it.

Chris Hauter, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

It’s more than sport for me, because I never get in a fight intending to tap. If I get caught I will die, I will break – I’m not going to tap.

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

It’s such an honest and open form of competition, your whole body, spirit and mind, against another person’s, where there is a clear and definitive winner, where one person wins and one person surrenders.

John Danaher, John Danaher Interview Jiu-Jitsu VS The World

Why do I beat a lot of people? Because I love it so much, that’s why. Everything about jiu jitsu, I love it: the school, the mat, the ring. I always believe that. Maybe I’m not better than my opponent, but I know for sure I love my training more.

Marcelo Garcia, The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game (Page 75)

I’ve been going against the stereotype of jiu jitsu since I started. When I started jiu jitsu people told me “You’ve got to look tough, you’ve got to shave your head, you want to have a big bad cauliflower ear”. That’s what people would tell me…Then when I realised you don’t need that to win a tournament, when I realised you don’t need that to submit someone and dominate an event and you still can have a great performance, but still be kind and respectful and be enjoyable, I totally started going against that.

Marcelo Garcia, In Focus: Marcelo Garcia

The primary purpose of jiu jitsu is self-defence, teaching them complete self defence system, but also wellness. And when we talk about wellness we refer to as I said physical wellness, mental wellness and spiritual wellness.

Pedro Valente Jr, Jiu-Jitsu VS The World.

You can train a martial art, or a martial sport, such as jiu-jitsu, which is both, for sportive uses. But while you’re doing this you always have to think about reality. You have to train the sportive methods, but then always keep adapting them and yourself to be able to use them in real situations. You can’t lose sight of that or you lose sight of jiu-jitsu itself. That is the base idea of Brazilian jiu-jitsu – practice for sport, but be able to apply it for real.

Rigan Machado, Essence of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (page 16)

The best approach for teaching jiu jitsu is to make the student learn from within. He has to feel the difference, he’s not just obeying what you’re saying, but he has to [say] ‘oh man, I can feel now’

Rickson Gracie, Rickson Gracie 2020 – InfernoCast

Watching your students win is one of the most rewarding moments you can have as a jiu jitsu instructor.

Roy Dean, Becoming the Black Belt: A BJJ Journey (page 186).

As I have said many times, I did not invent jiu jitsu, I just made it better. It is as if I had an oversized kimono and tailored it to fit me perfectly.

Helio Gracie, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (Page 26)

Traditionally, a kimono or “gi” is worn to simulate the clothing one would be wearing on the street, such as a jacket, coat, or shirt. The kimono is stronger and you can use it to practice a larger variety of finishing techniques, so that if the need ever arises, you will be able to use your assailant’s clothing to your advantage.

Helio Gracie, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (Page 29)

Many styles of martial arts carried on that tradition and required that practitioners bow as a sign of respect. In Brazil, as in many parts of the world, when we meet someone we shake hands. That is what I have done all my life. So if we meet, please remember I don’t expect you to bow to me. A handshake will do.

Helio Gracie, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (Page 29)

Since my initial involvement with jiu-jitsu, because of my lack of strength, my objective has been to have maximum effectiveness in the simplest and most effortless way possible. I did not spend my life trying to improve a system that would make me look good at a sport competition, full of fancy spins and colorful turns. Instead, I have developed a self-defense method that is complete, easy, and effective.

Helio Gracie, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (Page 27)

My jiu jitsu hasn’t changed. Ever since I started 75 years ago, it hasn’t changed at all. There are so many people practicing today that there is going to be a chance for people to invent their own way and try to make it better. But that doesn’t alter the product.

Helio Gracie, Helio Gracie Interview