229 quotes found
“Life is easier lived when lived for others.”
“There is no more valuable skill than studentship. The farther we go down one area of human understanding, the more we see the corollaries that all activities share. Everything I do for the rest of ...”
“Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsi...”
“We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery ...”
“Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to c...”
“If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Jiu Jitsu does not leave you viewing strangers in a kinder light, you are missi...”
“Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sin...”
“I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in my most basic self. I wanted to chip away at all of the nonsense I have acqui...”
“Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.”
“We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.”
“I have seen far by seeing through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have exchanged a great deal of physical health for these insights, and these were trades worth making. My efforts were worth the return. I...”
“Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.”
“Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.”
“An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.”
“The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our parti...”
“For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.”
“I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.”
“There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.”
“I use my understanding of jiu jitsu as a road map to learn other activities. I look for the similarities between the two, and use jiu jitsu as an allegory for whatever my new practice may be. I tru...”
“I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all thing...”
