Glover Teixeira Quotes

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I'm awesome at submissions.

I like all styles of MMA, my first classes in the sport were BJJ but I prefer to stand up.

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

Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you'd see in a jiu-jitsu class.

I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.

I'm a two-time world champion in jiu-jitsu. I can try to submit you.

I'm a jiu-jitsu guy and that's my root.

I train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a beautiful thing.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

I'd like to be remembered for being the one responsible for adapting Brazilian jiu-jitsu for modern MMA. For what I've learned from fence work and some ground positions. Lots of details I developed after years and years studying them, testing what worked on the mat, against the fence, what kept opponents on the ground, control situations.

I work on armbars, triangles, anaconda chokes, guillotines and rear-naked chokes. Basic, simple stuff. I just wanna go there and win the fight, I don't wanna invent too much and try doing fancy things.

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

Nobody has seen my jiu-jitsu, but I have really good jiu-jitsu. I submit black belts.

Grappling is my style.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

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 the best there is in jiu-jitsu.

I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.

I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.