Famous Gladiator Quotes

Ancestors, I ask you for your guidance. Blessed mother, come to me with the Gods' desire for my future. Blessed father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air. Ancestors, I honor you and will try to live with the dignity that you have taught me.
By Maximus on Ancestors

The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It is the sand of the Colosseum.
By Gracchus on Colosseum

He will bring them death, and they will love him for it.
By Gracchus on Death

In the end, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, or when. But what we can choose is how we decide to meet that end, so we are remembered forever as men.
By Proximo on Death

Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.
By Cicero on Duty

What we do in life echoes in eternity.
By Maximus on Eternity

Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.
By Unnamed Slave Trader on Gladiators

At my signal, unleash hell.
By Maximus on Hell

Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once.
By Commodus on Loyalty

I searched the faces of the gods for ways to please you, to make you proud. One kind word, one full hug while you pressed me to your chest and held me tight, would've been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is in me that you hate so much?
By Commodus on Marcus Aurelius

Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.
By Maximus on Meaning

Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
By Lucilla on Power

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
By Marcus Aurelius on Roman Idea

Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him.
By Lucilla on Rome's Worth

People should know when they are conquered.
By Quintus on The Conquered

Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.
By Proximo on The Crowd

I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
By Gracchus on The People

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
By Maximus on Vengeance