I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.

If Teila Tuli won the first UFC, everybody would have been learning sumo.

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

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

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

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

I live a very healthy lifestyle.

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

I travel all over the world and teach people.

My brother, who created the UFC, had a vision. He knew that people wanted to see who was the best fighter. People have curiosity, what style was the best? Boxing, wrestling, Gracie jiujitsu? It was a quest to find out.

I follow a very strict diet.

When Scott Coker first mentioned to me that Ken Shamrock wanted to fight I said, 'Thank you.' I played a little hard to get, but for sure I knew we had to do the third fight with Ken; there was no doubt. He still insisted on fighting me. I guess the guy cannot sleep for 22 years.

Gracie is not a family, it's a factory of fighters.

Face life's challenges with confidence, dare to pursue your dreams and live to the fullest just as my father did.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

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

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

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

My father had nine kids, seven boys and two girls, and my uncle had 21 kids, 11 boys and 10 girls. They had the opportunity to teach the art of Gracie Jiu Jitsu and that's how we got involved from a young age. It's in the blood.

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.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.