Machida Quotes

#1. I won't be happy unless I finish Lyoto Machida.

Chris Weidman

#2. Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss.

Chael Sonnen

#3. Our two chairs were drawn up to the fire; a stack of scholarly books beside his and the latest volume of The Casebook of Simon Feximal by mine. Our cat Saul curled on the couch; he opened one sleepy eye at our entrance, then closed it again. The

Jordan L. Hawk

#4. The pressure is always there ... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.

Lyoto Machida

#5. Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

Lyoto Machida

#6. My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.

Lyoto Machida

#7. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Trent Reznor

#8. To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

Lyoto Machida

#9. You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

Lyoto Machida

#10. The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

Lyoto Machida

#11. We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Nelson Mandela

#12. Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

Lyoto Machida

#13. The uncomfort zone is very important for us ... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if you feel comfortable you must search for the discomfort, don't look only for the easy way.

Lyoto Machida

#14. I have to accept everything ... I will be back strong.

Lyoto Machida

#15. It's not a defeat nor an obstacle that is going to get in the way of our dream, my dream continues, the journey continues

Lyoto Machida

#16. Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

Deepak Chopra

#17. I believe a lot in what I do and in my work. I believe in me.

Lyoto Machida

#18. If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.

Lyoto Machida

#19. If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

Lyoto Machida

#20. I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap

Lyoto Machida

#21. This is one of the toughest divisions and I'm going to be champion.

Lyoto Machida

#22. It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.

Michael Ignatieff

#23. My job is to be tech entrepreneur-in-residence at the White House.

Todd Park

#24. There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.

Lyoto Machida

#25. You have to walk and believe that you can find the light.

Lyoto Machida

#26. The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

Lyoto Machida

#27. There's no monster...just a beautiful day.

Khaled Hosseini

#28. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber

#29. Passing Proposition 8 did not stop LGBTQ couples from going to sleep that night with their partners. What it did accomplish, however, was remind the gay community once again that they are not looked at as equals, that the God of so many does not love them.

Timothy Kurek

#30. The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together.

Lyoto Machida

#31. When I fight I try to empty my mind ... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.

Lyoto Machida

#32. I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

Lyoto Machida

#33. Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#34. A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

Jim Caviezel

#35. Zabi and I know each other like the wind knows the sky, each one separate, yet always together, two halves of a whole.

Mary Funk

#36. Meditation plays a big role in my life. Meditation fortifies my spirit, improves my focus, my desire. When I fight I try to empty my mind. It's called Mushin. When I don't see anything around me, I only see that moment. Nothing else matters. that was how I was taught to live.

Lyoto Machida

#37. I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

Lyoto Machida

#38. Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Michel Foucault

#39. I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

Lyoto Machida

#40. If you have a dream in your life, go ahead it's possible, go ahead

Lyoto Machida

#41. I'm just a regular guy that had a dream and ran for it.

Lyoto Machida