You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?

It's always a pleasure to watch a Gracie winning. We were born fighting.

I could live on fruits.

I have such a big family, sometimes, I was wondering, when is it going to be my turn? There's always a brother who's older, younger, bigger, stronger, faster, I was like, 'hey, give me a chance guys.'

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

OK, if he's a grappler, good for me, I know what to do. If he's a kickboxer, I gotta get in a clinch and move a certain way. If he's a karate man, he moves a different way, but I'm still going to have to clinch. So, a sumo wrestler, I have to clinch. It's just, how I get there, how I move it.

The UFC was my home and will always be my home. I helped creating and building that home.

You have tons of talents everywhere you go, so you can't be stuck to only one promotion.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

I only sign one fight at a time.

We fight to prove that our art, Gracie jiu-jitsu, is the best.

I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.

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

You're a warrior or you're not.

That's good when the guy has confidence. It's not bad. I want to fight someone who thinks like that.

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

You have to work on your stand-up to know what's coming, but jiu-jitsu is enough to win the fight.

If Gerard Gordeau would have won the first UFC, everybody would be learning savate.

You have to know when to stop in this sport. It's very hard.

I made peace with retirement, but when you're a fighter, you're always a fighter.

There is no age as long as the body feels good.

McGregor is taking Muhammad Ali's model. He can say whatever he wants but he's got to prove it. If he doesn't prove it, his career is going to be short.

I like my girls delicate.

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.

Don't care about catch-wrestling. I only care about Jiu-Jitsu.

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

Jiu-Jitsu is the bond or styles all between all the other styles. Take Jiu-Jitsu out, a boxer is just a boxer, a kickboxer is just a kickboxer. Take Jiu-Jitsu out of the wrestling - what is he going to do, take the person down and? There's no finishing holds, there's no striking.

The jiu-jitsu my father created was for the smaller guy to beat the bigger guy.

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

When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.

I never picked an opponent.

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

Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don't have to be strong. You don't have to be fast.

People always want to see who's the best fighter in the world.

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.

Sometimes you watch a tournament with a point system, and it's not the best fighter that wins. It's the guy who scores more points and then he runs away and hides.

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

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

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

Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.

My second fight at UFC 1, I fought Ken Shamrock. In the fight I choked him. As soon as he tapped, I let go. He tried to continue, but the ref got kind of stuck like, 'should I let it go or stop the fight.' That's when I looked at the ref and I said, let it go, we're going to continue.

I enjoy traveling, teaching and fighting. It's in my blood.

I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson? I'm going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

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

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

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.