Rickson Gracie

“All martial arts are different. They all got deluded by the sporting aspect.”

“The quickest, the more efficient way, and causing less pain and trauma, the better.”

“It's all about your mindset; it's how you think and what you believe, what you're ready for and prepare for, and how you're able to accept and surrender everything around you.”

“Something I always did in between fights, preparing for somebody, a normal practice exercise, is visualizing a situation with different outcomes I can pursue.”

“Something my dad would say was that it's not important to win, but it's important to know how not to be defeated. The art of invincibility is the most important attribute in Jiu-Jitsu.”

“I try to protect Kron in a way that he won't face the worst challenge in his first MMA fight, and then he will be ready to fight the best.”

“In my case, I was representing my family name, honor, legacy... I did not see it as a sport requiring winning or losing a game. For me, it was honor, tradition.”

“You should have the option to say 'come on, if you don't fight the way people expect you to, go home. You're disqualified. Go away.'”

“My great grandfather came from Scotland to Brazil, George Gracie, from Dumfries.”