Royce Gracie Quotes

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

I need to improve my striking and my wrestling, but I always be best at jiu-jitsu.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

I think it's stupid to say a guy who has trained in jiu-jitsu for as long as I have is just a stand-up fighter. I have trained with some of the best black belts in the world. I am comfortable on the ground. I can fight wherever the fight goes and not be concerned.

Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling and my striking.

I'm a two-time world champion in jiu-jitsu. I can try to submit you.

I already knew a lot about the ground aspects of MMA, being a wrestler, but there was so much more. There was kicking, punching, and other things I wish I could have done as a wrestler. It really stoked my interest.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

I practiced everything, from my BJJ to wrestling, judo and Muay Thai.

There's no question in my mind that the times I was in my prime, I was the most well-rounded fighter out there - or in the world. I was the one who knew how to kickbox. I did kickbox and muay thai, I competed in events in Japan, and I was a submission specialist. Going into the UFC for the first time, I was the most well-rounded fighter there.

If I were to fight Khabib, guaran-damn-tee you I would throw him from his feet to his back and beat him like in sambo like a five-point move in wrestling. That's my background.

I'm too long, I'm too rangy, I can box, I can kick, I can wrestle, I can do jiu-jitsu.

I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I'm awesome at submissions.

The thing about mixed martial arts is you have to know every single martial art in the world or you're at a disadvantage. So, there's so much to learn. I have to know wrestling. I have to know kick boxing. I have to know boxing. I have to know karate.

I'm a jiu-jitsu guy and that's my root.

I train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

My Jiu-Jitsu is very MMA focused. I was not the best striker, and when I considered becoming a MMA fighter I just focused to improve my BJJ.

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.

My goal is to make wrestling more like mixed martial arts.

I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.

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

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years.