“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“To win the battle is to be prepared to die.”

“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.”

“The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.”

“The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior’s form of worship.”

“The best fighter is never angry.”

“A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.”

“Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

“Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.”