Eddie Bravo Quotes

There are lots of jiu-jitsu fighters who finish fights and have good MMA jiu-jitsu, but I think I've applied techniques which I can teach other people.

I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

A lot of the athletes moved away from boxing, into UFC - which I think is really crazy, where they elbow to the head and knee to the jaw. I think that's really a barbaric sport - but boxing is coming back.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

Wrestling is part of what I do, but far from the only thing.

Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

I will never step foot in the Octagon

When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.

At the end of the day, when two combatants get into the ring and/or cage, it's anybody's game, especially in MMA.