Words of Wisdom.

"The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim." - JJ Machado

"A man is not defeated when he loses, he is defeated when he quits." - Nixon

"There are many blackbelts, few senseis."- unknown

"Be careful, lest in banishing your demons, you banish the best thing within you." - Nietzsche

"Hell would be if God were to show me things I could have accomplished if only I had believed in myself." - unknown

"If there is nothing to be happy about today, be glad that there is the potential of tomorrow." -Rickson Gracie

"In the streets, I'd rather be judged by 12 than be carried by 6." - unknown

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - unknown

"The belt only covers 2 inches of your butt, the rest you have to back up on your own." - Royce Gracie

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Boxer guys are very tuff, and they play a very tuff game, but its a game, karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tuff guys, and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport, its not a fight, a fight is everything goes." - Rickson Gracie

"Take arrows in your forehead, but never in your back". - Samurai maxim

"The complete man must work, study and wrestle." - Aristotle

"It's hard to beat something that never gives up" - unknown

"The cowards never started.  And the weak died along the way." - Viking Saying

"Good men die, but death cannot kill their names." - Viking Saying