If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of using one's strengths in situations instead of engaging in risky behavior that goes against one's training.
Royce Gracie's quote suggests that if someone has dedicated their life to mastering jiu-jitsu, they should leverage that skill on fight night rather than choose to engage in a risky stand-up fight with a striker. It highlights the importance of utilizing one's strengths in competition and not compromising one's training for the sake of conforming to conventional expectations.
In practice
During a martial arts seminar, to encourage practitioners to focus on their unique skills.
I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy fight, even if you win in 30 seconds, that only means you were able to execute your strategy correctly and induced your opponent to make a mistake. Those are the champions. That's why they are the champions.
Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.
The greatest tribute you can to pay to my father is to continue to train and share Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, remembering to never lose sight of the fact that what you do off the matt counts more than what you do on the matt.
I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.
A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
The most important thing is to not stop questioning.
Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
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