Lyoto Machida Quotes

There have been ups and downs over the years, but that's in the past, and now I'm just looking forward and focussed on the future ahead.

I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.

Football is like a rollercoaster and if you keep dwelling on what's happened in the past you're never going to move.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

No matter what you've been through or what's going on ahead, a fresh start's always good.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.

I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Forget the past.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

I don't live in the past.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

There's no sustenance in the past.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.