Helio Quotes & Sayings

I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress. — Helio Castroneves

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie

If you can't communicate effectively, you will not lead. — Helio Fred Garcia

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life. — Helio Gracie

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets. — Henry Giroux

If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season. — Helio Castroneves

Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them. — Shana Abe

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves. — Helio Gracie

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything. — Helio Castroneves

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep. — Helio Gracie

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose. — Helio Gracie

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. — Victor Hugo

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing. — Helio Castroneves

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression. — Helio Gracie

To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches. — Helio Castroneves

Please keep in mind that no matter how strong, fast or coordinated you are, there is always someone stronger, faster and more coordinated. — Helio Gracie

Together we alternate back and forth, protecting our own retreat. When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on. Together, we have a chance. He — Victoria Aveyard

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength — Helio Gracie

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice. — Helio Gracie

It would be good karma. — Helio Castroneves

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. — Helio Gracie

His thoughts," Helio said, "are as clear as plastic to me, and mine likewise to him. We are both prisoners, Mister, in a hostile land." At that Arnie laughed loud and long. "Truth always amuses the ignorant," Helio said. — Philip K. Dick

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million. — Helio Gracie

But whosoever recount his true merits to Thee, what is it that he recounts to Thee but Thine own gifts? Oh, if men would know themselves to be men ... — Augustine Of Hippo

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood. — Helio Gracie

Color is the first revelation of the world. — Helio Oiticica

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off. — Joss Whedon

Ragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks — Christopher Paolini

When I'm driving the race track, it's all about repetition. — Helio Castroneves

The basic fact about life on planet earth is that God has not created evil and God has not created imperfection, limitations and suffering. These things were created by human beings. These things manifested in the material world because human beings made the choice to focus their attention on imperfection. — Kim Michaels

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well! — Helio Castroneves

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone. — Helio Gracie

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go. — Helio Castroneves

I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn't wish that on anybody. — Kerry Stokes

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong. — Helio Gracie