Top 44 Royce Gracie Quotes

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

I don’t drink, I don’t smoke.

I’m a MMA fighter, man. I’m a MMA fighter, all the way.

If I’m home, just hanging around with the kids.

I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.

In a street fight situation, there’s no weight division, there’s no time limits.

The UFC was my home and will always be my home. I helped creating and building that home.

I’m a prize fighter. Put me in any card and I’ll sell it out. I can do it, man.

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don’t have to be strong. You don’t have to be fast.

I could live on fruits.

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you’ve got to know when to stop.

When you like something, it’s not work, it’s a pleasure.

GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he’s good in standup and good at grappling.

OK, if he’s a grappler, good for me, I know what to do. If he’s a kickboxer, I gotta get in a clinch and move a certain way. If he’s a karate man, he moves a different way, but I’m still going to have to clinch. So, a sumo wrestler, I have to clinch. It’s just, how I get there, how I move it.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

The armlock is an armlock, a choke is a choke. How you set it up – is different. Everybody have their personal style.

Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.

I never picked an opponent.

In a street fight there is no time-limit, no weight division, you don’t choose your opponent.

There is no age as long as the body feels good.

I like guys who can use strategy, not just tough guys.

When you’re a fighter, you have to be ready all the time. There’s no ‘I need a month.’ It’s always time.

The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament style. It’s for a street-fight situation.

I get stopped at the airports by just everyday people that are not even fans of the MMA and they say how they have seen me fight. Its very humbling and also rewarding.

McGregor is taking Muhammad Ali’s model. He can say whatever he wants but he’s got to prove it. If he doesn’t prove it, his career is going to be short.

You have to work on your stand-up to know what’s coming, but jiu-jitsu is enough to win the fight.

Gracie is not a family, it’s a factory of fighters.

Kids wake up in the morning and say, ‘I want to be a UFC fighter one day,’ just like they do in baseball.

It’s always a pleasure to watch a Gracie winning. We were born fighting.

Demian Maia, I love the way he fights.

I’m a vale-tudo fighter.

Yes, I do Jiu Jitsu for a living.

The jiu-jitsu my father created was for the smaller guy to beat the bigger guy.

I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That’s what I’ve done in the past.

If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

There’s so much talent in Brazil, so many guys that will probably never get discovered.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

I travel seven months a year, so it’s a lot of hotels and airplanes. I teach about three hours a day. I always go for a run. I try to lift some weights if I have the time and the strength. But running and teaching, that’s my life.

I like my girls delicate.