Royce Gracie
I take all the opportunities that come my way and I am thankful that I have them.Collection: Thankful
I follow a very strict diet.Collection: Diet
You're a warrior or you're not.
Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.
I am a product of my father's work.
That's why I like Demian Maia and Fabricio Werdum. Demian will take you down and do his game. Werdum learned the stand-up to know what's coming, but he never stopped using his jiu-jitsu. He will clinch, take you down and submit you.
My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.
The armlock is an armlock, a choke is a choke. How you set it up - is different. Everybody have their personal style.
You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.
The greatest tribute you can to pay to my father is to continue to train and share Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, remembering to never lose sight of the fact that what you do off the matt counts more than what you do on the matt.
Do this rubber guard stuff and I'll punch you in the nose.
I'm a MMA fighter, man. I'm a MMA fighter, all the way.
Yes, I do Jiu Jitsu for a living.
My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.
Face life's challenges with confidence, dare to pursue your dreams and live to the fullest just as my father did.
I don't drink, I don't smoke.
My father created this whole MMA thing.
I've never had a fight in the street.
In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.
I fight because I want to not because I have to.
I get stopped at the airports by just everyday people that are not even fans of the MMA and they say how they have seen me fight. Its very humbling and also rewarding.
I'm a vale-tudo fighter.
I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.
GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.
I like guys who can use strategy, not just tough guys.
GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he's good in standup and good at grappling.
Demian Maia, I love the way he fights.
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?
Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.
It's always a pleasure to watch a Gracie winning. We were born fighting.
Bellator and Viacom want to give fans exciting fights and enable fighters to continue to grow and most importantly provide for their family, and it's something I want to be a part of.
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.'
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.
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.
It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.
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.
I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.
Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.
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.
That's good when the guy has confidence. It's not bad. I want to fight someone who thinks like that.
The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament style. It's for a street-fight situation.