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.

I am Oberst Sandflek

I shall be closer to you for the next few days -- which will be the last of your miserable lives -- than that bitch of a mother that brought you screaming into this world.

I did not pay good money for you for your company!

I paid it so that I could profit from your death.

And as your mother was there at your beginning,

so I shall be be there at your end.


And when you die
-- and die you shall! --

your transition shall be to

the sound of [clapping]


Gladiators:

I salute you.