Lyoto Machida Quotes

You have to respect the opponent as much as possible.

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

You have to respect your opponent.

We will respect all our opponents, as we always do.

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

I respect my competition.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

We have to respect the opponents.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

I don't like to disrespect people or my opponents. Anything can happen.

It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need.

I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.

I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.