Top 77 Grappling Quotes

‘Harjeeta’ is a film based on the inspiring story of a sportsman, grappling with life’s struggles, and surviving against all odds and managing to end the nation’s 15-year-old drought in the Junior Championship by lifting the coveted trophy.

I know that it’s a fight at the end of the day; it’s not a grappling match.

I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you’d see in a jiu-jitsu class.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn’t play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

There’s nothing more gratifying than making someone laugh in today’s time when everybody is grappling with some issue or the other.

I’ve been working hard. I’m working on my wrestling, grappling more and I’m always working on my cardio.

I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions.

People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They’re seeking inspiration. We see this over and over – in communities of people who are grappling with body issues, in the LGBT community.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood – in high school or law school. Where it ends, I’m not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one’s spirituality.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

I wrestled in high school, so I actually have a bit of a base in grappling.

I definitely like the rubber guard. I always try to use it, especially when I’m just grappling or at the gym.

If you’re grappling with punches involved, you start realizing you only use certain guards. There are 3-4 different guards that you use – half-guard, open guard, and closed guard – the majority of the time.

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they’re actually capable of solving.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

There’s something to play if there’s conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that’s where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you’ve got something to play, there’s layers to it.

Having a professional grappling outlet is great for other submission wrestlers out there beyond Abu Dhabi, which happens every two years.

If you’re grappling with punches involved, you start realizing you only use certain guards. There are 3-4 different guards that you use – half-guard, open guard, and closed guard – the majority of the time.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we’ve invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

I’m trained in mixed martial arts. I started when I was 14 and did my first competition at 18. It was a grappling competition against all guys a weight category above me, and I got first place.

The Conservative party, like many others, is constantly grappling with issues of community cohesion and how you can express your core values without becoming authoritarian and over-prescriptive.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn’t play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

I definitely like the rubber guard. I always try to use it, especially when I’m just grappling or at the gym.

‘Memory.’ ‘Race.’ ‘Murder.’ That’s what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I’m grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

I knew that Michael Bisping didn’t have good wrestling or grappling. I knew this guy had nothing for St-Pierre.

I never train with wraps. I’ve always found that they kind of cut off blood flow when you’re grappling as well, because you’re flexing your forearms and grips and things. It’s just something I decided wasn’t for me anymore.

You are, in fact, stigmatized as a racist, because, after all, you have know acknowledged that your nation practiced racism explicitly for four centuries. And, now, since the ’60s, white Americans have been grappling with the stigma, trying prove that they are not racist, to prove the negative.

MMA is not jiu-jitsu. MMA is not boxing. MMA is not wrestling. It’s a different kind of style of punching and wrestling and grappling on the ground.

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they’re actually capable of solving.

We didn’t do training in grappling for Chiesa; I was about to put the hands on him, put the elbows on him, put the knees on him, put the hurt on him the way I’d trained for.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can’t just stick. It’s always floating a little bit, and depending on where you’re standing, it’s hard to read.

I feel like I have an advantage in grappling with just about anybody I fight.

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.

I have faith in my wrestling, faith in my grappling, and faith in my striking.

We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with – in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual’s life lessons and insights that we can all learn from – I am each time overwhelmed by joy.

I feel like I have an advantage in grappling with just about anybody I fight.

I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions.

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with – in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual’s life lessons and insights that we can all learn from – I am each time overwhelmed by joy.

I know that it’s a fight at the end of the day; it’s not a grappling match.

I never train with wraps. I’ve always found that they kind of cut off blood flow when you’re grappling as well, because you’re flexing your forearms and grips and things. It’s just something I decided wasn’t for me anymore.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare’s way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

I have my coach, Urijah Faber. He’s watching me do everything pretty much all the time. I’m training or grappling or sparring live. He’s over there making adjustments. He’s really hands on, so that makes a big difference.

Grappling is my style.

I love judo. I love grappling. I love jiu-jitsu.

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

I started training with Fabricio Itte with my wrestling and high performance; I started spending a lot more time with my head coach Henry Perez and also my grappling coach Alex Prates. Those three are my core team, and they’ve made hugely important changes and skill enhancements with my game.

I almost want to ask the judges, ‘If you don’t count leg kicks, if you don’t count body kicks, why not?’ So if you don’t think they’re effective in the scoring criteria, they’re not effective striking, effective grappling, so how about I kick you in the body, I kick you in the leg, and you tell me how that feels?

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.