Royce Gracie Quotes

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

Hope is not a strategy.

No battle can be won in the study...

The object of a general is not to fight, but to conquer: he fights enough who obtains the victory.

People say that the most difficult part is scoring the goal. But what I have to do is get the player there. If you focus on the goal instead of the how, then suddenly the chances start to decrease.

I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.

I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.