Lyoto Machida Quotes

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.

He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.