Hi guys I collated a few of my favourite quotes together. Many of these are from famous capoeira masters but not all... Hope you find inspiration from these like I do.

“The flame of this beautiful art is now in your hands. You can dampen it, you can burn yourself or your brothers and sisters, or, afraid of its heat, you can let go of it. I hope that you take good care of your capoeira and kindle this fire alive and powerful, enlightening your life”. (Mestre Acordeon)

"Why is patience so important for capoeira?.
"Because it makes you pay more attention in what you are learning."
(Contra-Mestre Casquinha)

“A good capoeirista of course likes everything of capoeira: the beats, the Berimbau, the game; everything else is secondary. Today a lot of capoeiristas are very arrogant, vain and these are negative aspects. A good capoeirista is humble, polite and he knows that all the other capoeiristas are brothers and human beings”. (Mestre Suassuna)

“Capoeira is joy, it is good humor, it is not that competition business; it is spontaneity”. (Mestre Suassuna)

“I believe that the capoeirista, when he discovers his potential to be a great artist he must find his inner change and so gradually his originality, find a deeper way to be unique”. (Contra-Mestre Casquinha)

A venerable capoeira once said to me: "I wished to be a dancer and I could not be. Today I dance in capoeira. I wanted to be a fighter, so I fight in capoeira. Because I want to be an artist and express myself, have self-esteem, and be a real human being, I am a capoeirista."
“For us capoeiristas, the Jogo of capoeira transcends each occasion of its actual performance and translates to every moment in the life. Capoeira is not a costume to be worn and taken off according to the situation or tournament. It is our own skin. We carry it all the time. We are cats, rats and monkeys, ferocious and gentle beasts in cavalcade through the many rodas of life; we are clowns, masters and slaves of the art who regain the freedom of ourselves only when cooked in the cauldron of Medea which is the Jogo in the roda”. (Mestre Acordeon)

“Fruits only come with time”. (Mestre Bimba)

“Express yourself through your body, train hard and push yourself beyond perceived limits, discover your creativity go beyond your imagination, face your fears and weaknesses, and overcome them, be unique within yourself, be a capoeirista” (Contra-Mestre Casquinha)

"Capoeira can never change the world, but can change people and people can make the difference in change the world" (Casquinha Capoeira)

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” (Paulo Coelho)

"Sorcery of slaves longing for liberty, its beginning has no method and its end is inconceivable to the wisest capoeirista." (Mestre Pastinha)

"Capoeira is like playing a instrument, first you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart." (Adaptation - Casquinha Capoeira)

“Capoeirista is not who knows how to move the body but who knows how to move by the soul” (Mestre Pastinha)

“The sport of capoeira gave way in my mind and I ended up liking it, it’s like when you see a woman and you like her and you end up falling in love with her, that’s how I fell in love with capoeira” (Mestre Waldemar da Paixão)

Hope you guys enjoyed these quotes...

Contra-Mestre Casquinha