Helio Gracie Quotes About Martial Arts

• 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

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Stronger, Technique

• 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.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Pain, 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.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Play, Doe

• For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Guy, Tough

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

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  Art, Real, People

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

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  Art, Jiu Jitsu, Efficiency

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

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Strong, Giving

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

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Opponents, Martial Arts

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

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  Art, Purpose, Should

• Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

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  Art, Thinking, Answers

• I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Facts, Wanted

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