Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! — Augustus
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. — George S. Patton
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. — Confucius
A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. — Sun Tzu
A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line. — Plutarch
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. — Lao Tzu
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. — Lao Tzu
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. — Chinese Proverbs
The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph — Nick Vujicic
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. — Socrates
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal
Short Gladiator Quotes
A gladiator's first distraction is his last. — Oenomaus
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops. — Katerina Graham
We are the modern day gladiators. — Tito Ortiz
I see before me the gladiator lie. — Lord Byron
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. — Ovid
The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late. — Seneca
- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator. — Nora Roberts
You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator. — Joel Siegel
I love 'Gladiator' and '300.' — Jason Kidd
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Roman Gladiator Quotes
When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior. — Stanton Peele
Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax. — Sid Waddell
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV. — Tom Shales
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in. — Chris Hemsworth
Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there. — Rem Koolhaas
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. — Vladimir Nabokov
In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra. — Chris Rock
The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark. — James Lee Burke
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. — Ridley Scott
But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. — Ridley Scott
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. — Yannick Noah
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. — Novak Djokovic
It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable. — Sugar Ray Leonard
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show. — Laila Ali
Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor. — Banksy
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. — Joseph Barbera
Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. — Noam Chomsky
Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds. — Neko Case
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore. — Michael Basman
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best. — Javier Bardem
Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we're just maintaining that routine. — Anthony Joshua
I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much. — Uwe Boll
My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own. — Danny Jacob
In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things. — Denzel Washington
When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death. — Rosario Dawson
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know. — Junot Diaz
I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. — Shirley Manson
There live a great man named Joe
who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
While his rival would taunt and tease
Joe silently bore the stings.
And then fought like gladiator in the ring. — Muhammad Ali
Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent — Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive — Spartacus
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today! — Nigel Hamilton
On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out. — Gina Carano
When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator. — Tyson Chandler
I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff. — Tyson Chandler
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