Royce Gracie Quotes

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

You want to keep the defense guessing.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people's strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they're uncomfortable.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

You have a big playbook when you know something is really a win.

You do what you have to do to get an advantage.

At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

Playoff basketball isn't about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board. It's just about winning at the end of the day. When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team.

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

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

I outwit them, and then I outhit them

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.