Quotes from Royce Gracie

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

If I had doubts, I would've never walked into the ring.

There's so much talent in Brazil, so many guys that will probably never get discovered.

The armlock is an armlock, a choke is a choke. How you set it up - is different. Everybody have their personal style.

I never picked an opponent.

You're a warrior or you're not.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

My grandfather was doing business with a Japanese man. In exchange of good relationship the man taught my uncles the art of jiu jitsu. My father couldn't do it because he was very weak, he couldn't do one press-up, so he just sat back and watched, and memorised. What he did was add leverage into the moves.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

I love to travel and I love to teach, so I combined the two.

A lot of fighters complain, 'Man he's five pounds heavier than me.' Really? It doesn't matter, man.

I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.

In a street fight there is no time-limit, no weight division, you don't choose your opponent.

I travel seven months a year, so it's a lot of hotels and airplanes. I teach about three hours a day. I always go for a run. I try to lift some weights if I have the time and the strength. But running and teaching, that's my life.

I like my girls delicate.

I'm a prize fighter. Put me in any card and I'll sell it out. I can do it, man.

It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

I'm a MMA fighter, man. I'm a MMA fighter, all the way.

I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.

When you're a fighter, you have to be ready all the time. There's no 'I need a month.' It's always time.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.