Lyoto Machida Quotes

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Every day I wake up like, "This might be my last day, and I'm not scared of it. I'm gonna go out there, do what I gotta do; I ain't gonna let nothing stop me." Nothing puts any fear in my heart. I'm never scared to bite my tongue about something, or never be scared to come out and speak about something - that's what I mean. Like, I ain't scared of death. What you gonna do to me?

Better be killed than frightened to death.

No damn man kills me and lives.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

"Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!" There was a brief pause. "In the end they shall kill us"... "But first, they shall fear us!"

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.

The man who runs may fight again.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I don't intend to die.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I'm not going to hide, I'm not going to surrender.

The Old Guard dies and never surrenders. La Vieille Garde meurt et ne se rend pas.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. …. We shall fight on the beaches … we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … we shall never surrender.