Lyoto Machida Quotes

You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.

I give the utmost importance to each opponent; otherwise, I can't move forward.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.

As a fighter, that's not something that ever factors in, whether you go first or last or you walk out first or you walk out second. It's not something that ever factors in or you feel slighted about. I don't think that anybody would care. The job is the same.

I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case.

I don't really look at stats or whatever. You see them on the big screen. But other than that, I don't pay too much attention to it. I did know about my dad's home run total. Other than that, I don't like to know. It's pointless. Whether you know or don't know, you don't want to think about it. You just want to go out and play the game.

Once you get on the pitch you know you've got a job to do.

There's no extra significance on beating a certain player. It's kind of like golf. You're just out there playing, and whatever ends up happening ends up happening.

I just have to play my best against my opponents.

It can be difficult playing friends. But you also have to know that it's a match, and this is what you do. And you do your best.

If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.

I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.

Nothing goes through your head when you're playing except who you are playing against and what you can do to affect the game.

I have fought fighters in the past who I don't like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he's done, whatever he's said, you can't be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

When you get out in the field, it's just like any other game. You want to be the same player, the same team that has gotten them to that point. I don't think you have to do anything special. Just be yourself and allow all the time you put in that take over and get the job done.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that's to win.

I don't think about how going to be the match. I think about try to do the right things to win. I don't think about how easy can say or how tough can say. I go on court. I try my best.

I dig all kinds of competition.

There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.