Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Mir

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Francisco Santos Mir III, is an American mixed martial artist who most recently competed for Bellator MMA in the Heavyweight division. He formerly competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) for sixteen years. A former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion, he holds the record for the most finishes and the most submission victories in UFC Heavyweight history. Mir possessed the longest uninterrupted tenure of any fighter in UFC history, competing for the company from 2001 to 2016. He was the first man to knock out and the first to submit Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira.

American - Mixed Martial Artist | Born: May 24, 1979

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I watched guys who were professional fighters hit each other 30 times, and it still didn't go anywhere. I thought 'that wasn't very effective' But I saw if you got someone in a choke, you can end a fight in seconds, and I pushed toward that.

Frank Mir

Someone who sees you on a certain night, maybe they've seen you on a bad night. I've seen Tom Brady throw interceptions. Is it time to retire, or is it a bad game? What if all week in practice he looked phenomenal?

Frank Mir

In the future, I'd like to break more into acting and stuff. I think that pro wrestling is a great springboard, really. You see a lot of guys coming from that world. In a lot of ways, it's like live theater. Guys going out there and performing and having to act on the fly and be their own stuntmen at the same time.

Frank Mir

I enjoy fighting.

Frank Mir

I think just being in there with Fedor is an impressive thing to be able to say at the end of my career, sitting in my office telling people my accolades.

Frank Mir

Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.

Frank Mir

I never found striking to be an effective form of fighting. I still clown people and tell them how animals in the wild that are hunted, they have to strike, bulls and rams, they use striking as protective nature. But the ones who are the predators, they're the grapplers who go for the throat.

Frank Mir

You always see the guys who go, 'Walk away from a fight,' and people look at him and go, 'You're not really a fighter anyways. Are you walking away because you're strong or because of your cowardice?'

Frank Mir

Those guys at AKA know how to make adjustments.

Frank Mir

I'm all for CM Punk becoming a part of the organization. I think his background and training in martial arts, he should be capable of handling himself and doing well. And bottom line is, people are going to tune in to watch and that's pretty much the bar of getting into the UFC, if you can sell tickets.

Frank Mir

I think the more that people appreciate the sport, the more they're a fan of it.

Frank Mir

At least my situation I can be like, look, I avoid physical confrontations, obviously not because I have an issue with physical violence, but I try to see the bigger picture of what it takes for humans to coincide with each other. We're all the same race.

Frank Mir

I'm pretty well-spoken guy, but I don't have a college education. Me making money in other avenues is not going to be as easy as walking into the Octagon.

Frank Mir

Georges St. Pierre has the best takedowns and dominant wrestling ability, and he's a great athlete, but he's shown he can be knocked out. I think B.J. Penn is the better fighter. He's the great martial artist.

Frank Mir

In the past, I would try to use as little strength as possible because strength will get you tired if you explode too many times. Well, get in shape.

Frank Mir

I want to constantly get better. Why not just keep fighting? Until I get told that I can't anymore, then I'll move on.

Frank Mir

He doesn't like to be hit. Not that anybody likes to be hit, but Brock for whatever reason has shown much more of a dramatic response to the negativity of those shots. To the point where he's not asleep, it isn't like he got knocked out, he's not getting dropped, but he just turns his face away from adversity.

Frank Mir

When people are wary about fighting on the ground, I have a more difficult time.

Frank Mir

By training with Ken Hahn, who comes from that full-contact karate school where he's hitting me in the back of the head while I'm hitting the bag, I learned that pain is a temporary state.

Frank Mir

I've watched guys in pro wrestling actually die. It's very dangerous. It's very injury heavy.

Frank Mir

To have an effective striking match, you need gloves on. Junior dos Santos would have a very short career if he was in a bare knuckle fight. The early UFCs, before gloves, were grappling with some striking.

Frank Mir

People don't usually have long careers as heavyweights because they mature into the role. Look at amateur wrestling, you don't usually see guys go to heavyweight as freshman. I was just blessed that even though I wasn't as big as some of the other guys, I was able to step in right away at heavyweight.

Frank Mir

I don't want them to have to be the one to come tell me, 'Hey, you performing at the top of your sport is no longer feasible. Biology has set its course.'

Frank Mir

Honestly, I think big guys are easier to fight. They don't move as fast, they get tired quickly and they're not as technical.

Frank Mir

I think the day of retirement will come when I go out there and do everything I was supposed to do and I still can't perform. I'm going out there and I'm a danger to myself, then it stresses your family out.

Frank Mir

Indifference is what death is for us as fighters.

Frank Mir

I've always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in high school. To me, it was just an evolution and mixed martial arts was the next step. I just wanted to compete and train in it. I had no illusions of it being a paying gig.

Frank Mir

I didn't have anything to prove to begin with to anybody else. I didn't start out doing this because I wanted to win awards or titles. I like martial arts, I like training, I like the lifestyle.

Frank Mir

The margin for error with Mark Hunt is a lot smaller than it is with some of the other heavyweights where you can get caught with a shot and maybe recover.

Frank Mir

I was having multiple surgeries after fights and not really addressing them the way I should have and having a proper off-season. So it was leading to more injuries and really making a strong influence on the way I was fighting. I was having to fight around injuries and not fight because it was the most efficient technique to use.

Frank Mir

At first, when I hit 300 pounds, my wife actually brought that up. She said, 'You do realize you can't walk around like this if you want to train or fight. It doesn't look like you want to fight anymore. Do you want to fight?' That called into question my own reality.

Frank Mir

Fedor is kind of hard to nail down to one company.

Frank Mir

Stipe is a phenomenal champ as far as like he's a good guy, if you want to point your kids in the right direction, 'Hey, look at this guy, he's a good person.'

Frank Mir

I think Matt Mitrione is a super tough guy, very athletic but I think that I'd probably get more pay-per-view buys if I fought Fedor.

Frank Mir

If I get too political or if I say things... the whole religious thing, which if you know my background, kind of baffles me anyway. I leave that to the people that are religious and that's their thing. I just try to steer clear of it.

Frank Mir

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

Frank Mir

I love martial arts, so why wouldn't I want to help people understand it more?

Frank Mir

I remember one time watching Jose Aldo fight Jonathan Brookins, and he just chopped him up.

Frank Mir

With the half-guard and guard, if you have a belly it's hard to pull your knees up.

Frank Mir

There are too many fights in our sport that are exciting, and you've got to let us fight.

Frank Mir

Brock Lesnar will never be able to beat me because he has no submission skills. What's he going to do, knock me out?

Frank Mir

No one is guaranteed a spot at the top, no one is guaranteed a title shot, but all you can do is win your fight, keep training, and then maybe somewhere down the road you'll get your opportunity.

Frank Mir

Fedor has great killer instinct, he's tough, he's strong. If I fought him I'd try to catch him in a submission, but I don't know if Fedor can be beaten.

Frank Mir

For some reason I didn't have a lot of social skills, I didn't date a lot of girls. I always had the thing where I was in love with one girl.

Frank Mir

I've been a pretty big guy my whole life.

Frank Mir

It has always been a dream of mine to fight in Japan.

Frank Mir

I'd rather fight named fighters and Fedor's somebody I've always wanted to fight and I think that it would be nice to be able to complete that kind of Who's Who of my resume.

Frank Mir

I haven't fought the easiest opponents. You can show up at your best and still not come out on top.

Frank Mir

The dieting thing, I think you have to approach as intelligently as you can. First I started as a vegetarian. And for a whole year, I gave it a shot. And it kept my weight down. But honestly, my body fat wasn't as low - I got a little bit softer. I was getting injured a lot more. I felt a lack of 'umph.'

Frank Mir

I fought Mark Hunt and I got caught with a shot that he threw. That's kind of like getting caught by a submission by me.

Frank Mir

I've been around long enough to know that you never say never.

Frank Mir

I'm not an unintelligent individual.

Frank Mir

I want to fight for as long as possible.

Frank Mir

Competing is something that once I retire from, it's not something I can go back and do.

Frank Mir

I respect Brock, all the other fighters, and the sport of mixed martial arts.

Frank Mir

If you were to get a seminar in MMA, I think you'd want one from me over Mark Hunt. I'm more efficient and my understanding of the art is deeper, and I'm still only growing in terms of my intelligence in combat.

Frank Mir

I very much like the Japanese version of pro wrestling, probably the most.

Frank Mir

Anderson Silva I think is extraordinarily talented, but I don't think his submission game is great. We've seen him get caught in heel hooks.

Frank Mir

Who you fought is a test of who you really are.

Frank Mir

When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I'm not going to grind back.

Frank Mir

Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Mir

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