Lyoto Machida Quotes

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.

It's not an excuse, but I'd say I didn't perform well in the big fights because I wasn't prepared properly.

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don't feel like you're ready, you let your coach know 'hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.'

I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no.

There's always going to be people talking so you just have to focus everyday and be the best fighter you can be in the Octagon on the day of the fight.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

I'd love a training camp. But if they walked in the door right now and said, 'Do you want to fight for the title in the next 10 minutes?' I'm out the door, warming up, ready to go.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

You need to prepare for every fight.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

I think that's the biggest thing in this sport is when you prepare, you have extra confidence.

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

Going into the UFC debut, you have to wonder what's going on, what's the workout going to be like. It's just an honor to be at an open workout.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

I don't even train for these fights. I'm not mad when people say that because it's true.

Fighters don't just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.

When you train outside of camp, it's fun, I'm playing around, I'm working hard but I'm having fun. When I get into that camp it's 10 weeks of tunnel vision on that opponent, you're trying to work on your strengths and weaknesses, really trying to get better in different areas before the fight.

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson