Best quotes by Royce Gracie on Fight

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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?

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• ‟ My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.

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• ‟ I've never had a fight in the street.

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• ‟ I fight because I want to not because I have to.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.

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• ‟ If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?

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• ‟ The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I only sign one fight at a time.

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• ‟ We fight to prove that our art, Gracie jiu-jitsu, is the best.

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• ‟ That's good when the guy has confidence. It's not bad. I want to fight someone who thinks like that.

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