Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
He who manages the distance, manages the damage.
If you train worst case scenarios consistently, they will no longer be worst case scenarios
The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly
When your purpose and your occupation is giving confidence to people, teaching self defense, giving empowerment, teaching a positive lifestyle to other people, you tend to emit that yourself because you want to live what you preach and you want to preach what you live, and I'm just trying to do my best.
Learn Gracie Jiu-Jitsu so that when a giant walks by, you don't think to yourself 'oh no,' you think to yourself 'how interesting!
When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.