Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Shamrock - Page 2

I mean as a human being I'm happy to be working, but, I look back on my career and I mean, you know, a lot of people worry about what didn't happen, but I'm just happy for what I've got.

I mean, I watched Ken train in the gym. Ken was one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. But when he got into a fight, it would be half of him. He was wrestling with a lot more in there than just beating his opponent.

I know what the bottom is like. I know what it's like to have zero. You can always build up. But it starts by changing your mind and taking action.

I didn't want to keep fighting and risking injury to my body when the pay wasn't where I needed it to be. I made a strategic decision to give it up after I fought Tito. I always planned on coming back when the sport was able to right itself and had a brighter future.

Anybody who's a super athlete - I mean, Herschel Walker, it doesn't matter - if you're a super athlete and you get the technique of fighting, you're super dangerous.

I stopped being a fighter in 1999 and I became a fight executive the moment I retired and took control of my brand.

I don't believe that Dana White is a martial artist. I don't see a martial way that he is following.

Scott Coker's a martial artist. He's an honest guy. If you ask him to do something he'll do it, or else he'll tell you why he can't do it. That's what fighters need.

Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts.

I'm the first guy to jump on somebody and pick a fight with them, at least verbally, I try to do it with some class and respect.

It's part of being successful, just planning your life, catalogue successes, keep track of things that are important to you and make them a reality.

Only guys who fight for a living know what it's like to be hungry and beaten and tired, mentally, all the time. The average person has no understanding of what that is and what that could be.

I looked at my own fights: everyone's excited and I was all disappointed that my techniques didn't work.

My first fighting team was my brother, and I learned that I came from a community where your team was your family. We functioned as a unit. You helped as many people as you could, because they would help you.

I'm the black sheep of the family.

Fighting is 90-percent mental. It's a lot of emotion.

The face of our sport is Dana White and out here in conservative New York, the way people think, bald-headed, tattoo'd, swearing people are just not a good representative of our brand and unfortunately people think that Dana White speaks for MMA, and they're confused.

I wish the sport was much more evolved when I got into it.

Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.

Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.

I became a free agent in 1999. I retired, that's how I got out of my contract. From that moment on, I've always been in control of my own destiny.

I mean, I work in television, so every day is like the end of your career and then each day is a new one.

I had this relationship with Strikeforce that included getting all these investments and really building the brand up, moving it in the right direction. I was constantly looking for financing and opportunities.

Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time.

Everyone loves MMA once they see it. But you've got to watch it.

I left the UFC after the fight with Ortiz. Tito was the last super tough guy as I had already handled all of the other guys quite handily.

This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That was the original draw behind the sport. That's what caught everybody's attention.

I actually threw rocks at a train and in California, that's a felony. I went and did ten days in juvenile hall.

Fighters need someone they can trust. We can't trust anybody.

I think this sport can change a lot of things. It changed my life.

I took a lot of physical punishment learning the art of fighting.

Fighting is a lot of ego, and that's OK.

My natural body weight is about 183 pounds. I've just always tried to keep 10 pounds of muscle on me because the bigger you were before, the more money you made. I always tried to cut at least five pounds to get to 185.

I've always picked the fight that I thought would, you know what, that guy's really tough, and it's really competitive, but it's going to be a great show for the fans.

My first coach was my brother Ken. He taught me submission wrestling, the catch-as-catch-can style that he was famous for. Then I trained in Japan with Funaki and Suzuki. Then I learned jiu-jitsu and sambo with Oleg Taktarov and Gokor Chivichyan.

As a martial artist, I discovered that there's always so much more to learn.

When I first came along there was also only two weight classes, so you can imagine things were pretty crazy back then.

Above all things, Strikeforce is a stable, established business that has experience with live events, and it has the martial arts culture. I worked closely with EliteXC and they had no martial arts culture. They didn't really understand what they were doing, so the odds of them being successful were kind of a crapshoot.

I just want to be known as the guy who made a difference because he really believed.

I have a platform to tell the truth.

Conditioning is my best weapon.

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.

I break bones, I break people, I break spirits!

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

Fighting is 90% mental. There are people who run from the fire and there are people that turn around and run to the fire.

I believe there is a champion in all of us.

This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

There's always tomorrow; that's the martial way.

When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

When you're in there fighting, there's an energy and there's a focus that is nearly unbreakable.