Top 45 Lyoto Machida Quotes

For sure, Jacare would be a great opponent. I have all the respect for him, but I would like a lot to have the opportunity of facing him someday.

Fighting in Brazil is always great because you’re close to the fans. It’s a good energy on fight day: during the open workouts, the support on social media is always closer.

My dad taught me; Mr. Steven Seagal taught me, also.

A fight is a fight, and you never know what is going to happen until you start fighting.

When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I’d like to do the same thing.

Right after my fight against Luke Rockhold, I had surgery on my left hand. I just took out some fragments from back then. Too many training, and I had some fragments in my hand.

Karate is my main martial art; that is what I train in every day. It has always been in my life. Sumo is another Japanese martial art that I got into at an early age. It is something that has helped and added to my overall stance and is a good base. It is not something I necessarily use in all my fights, though.

My main objective is always the belt.

Brock Lesnar is a big challenge for me because he’s a big guy: very, very strong, very, very powerful, very, very fast. I like the challenge. Brock Lesnar, for me, would be a very good fight.

I’m a guy that always had positive thoughts in every situation in my life.

Every time you step into a different cage, you can feel the difference.

I like to be busy, especially after I lost against Luke Rockhold. The best way to recover is to get another fight.

We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial art became a sport and that my brother and I use in the cage.

Everything Mousasi says only motivates me. I have a win over him, and I think he’s a little bothered by it.

It’s not my style to talk trash to my opponents.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

I want to be the middleweight champion.

I’ve always worked hard and stayed focused.

I try to learn from my losses, see how they can help me in the future.

Hard moments can happen with anyone. And these are the situations that you have to overcome.

Every fight is a little bit different.

I won’t cling to the past.

It’s very hard because the sport evolves so fast, changes so fast. So, you have to be there to see the changes that are happening in the moment. That’s why I keep training every day. I try to mix myself in all of the academies.

I have a great run in the UFC.

I think to keep my principles. To keep my principles, I think, is the most important thing. Every day, everyone change. It’s normal, but your principle never can change.

Rafael Carvalho deserves a lot of respect and seriousness in my camp.

My way of thinking is like that: always positive.

Mousasi is a very tough fighter.

My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.

I live my life – I walk the right path – but I can’t be like, ‘Oh, I’m scared of this or that.’

Learning is constant. I learn something new every day.

If you have a dream in your life, go hard. It’s possible.

When I signed with Bellator, I knew this would be a new positive chapter in my career.

My father is a master in karate. He always taught me the philosophy of Karate. When I’m talking about philosophy, I mean respect to willpower, self confidence. Those qualities, I think it’s very important, not just for fighting, but for any person.

One of my brothers teaches karate at our gym and also handles the administrative side of the gym. My other brother is a fighter like me and teaches a class at the gym. So my brothers are always at the gym together training.

Fighting in Bellator is a dream come true for me.

I loss that fight to Phil Davis, but I’m not convinced on that fight. Because it wasn’t fair for me. I’d like to do another fight.

At middleweight, I started to find an ideal weight for me. I face guys my size, my height, and with my physique.

I feel that not only have I been out there promoting my style of karate, but just promoting the traditional martial arts, and it makes me very happy.

We always want the knockout or the submission.

I never underestimate anybody.

I always go into every fight trying to forget about what happened in the past, whether I won or lost.

I believe in my striking game against Weidman’s wrestling. He’s complete in every aspect of the game, but I’m confident in what I do.

If you lose three or four in a row, people start talking about retirement. They are not used to this sport like they are used to tennis. If you take a look at how many times Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer lost, it’s all part of the game. Soccer is no different: teams go through bad times and then rise again.

I think we both matured together in this sport, so I think fight between Michael Bisping and myself would mean a lot.