Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Mirko Cro Cop - Page 2

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.

I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.

I had 33 kickboxing fights, 37 MMA fights, plus 44 amateur boxing fights, which most of them were international. I will keep fighting as long as I feel good, but I will repeat once more, any fight could be the last one.

Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it's not good to underestimate him.

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

To be a successful fighter now, you have to go to a camp.

Even though I didn't do as well in the UFC as the rest of my career, I feel like I did everything that I could to have an overall successful career.

Training is not the key. Head is the key. For me, it's head. How aggressive you will be. Who will attack first? But you need to be good in your head, and there will be no problem.

I feel that Japan is like my second home; this is where I want to fight.

K-1 is the sport where I started. This is my first love, and I find K-1 more attractive and more suitable for our Croatian fans than MMA.

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.

The UFC has been so good to me over the years, and it is hard to leave this company and this sport.

Gabriel Gonzaga is a very solid fighter, and I've seen some of his fights. He's a tough guy.

It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.

I don't know if I will take the UFC title, but I will die trying.

This fire in me will last forever.

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn't have motivation to go on.