Lyoto Machida Quotes

I think our sport evolves as the talent evolves and the mindset evolves.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

If you have the quality, you can only improve as a young player through match practice. That seems obvious, and it's proven to be true in my case.

It wasn't until I was about 16 that I began to grow and develop as a player.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

It's all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.

I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.

For a young player, the most important thing is to play.

I want to improve every part of my game.

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

I just go out and play my best tennis.

The more matches I play, the better I feel on the pitch.

You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.

English football is very different, and I had to adapt to it much more than I would have had if I had stayed in the Russian league. But after a season, I felt a lot better, a lot fitter.

The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.

I never think that I have to be at top every time. Obviously, I have to do well in every game and series; that's what I try to do. I try to improve and work on the swing and variation in my bowling.

I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.

The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.

Training with the best fighters in the world and getting top coaching - I do feel it improved me a lot as a fighter.

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

As a cricketer - or any sportsperson, for that matter - you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

I need to play three or four weeks to get into a rhythm. I'm not like Tiger. I can't play one week and win.