Quotes from Frank Shamrock

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

Frank Shamrock knows what he's doing.

I started in this sport when I was 21 and I helped bring it to network television and the one thing I missed was wrestling or fighting Sakuraba.

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.

In boxing there are only two ways out: you get knocked out or you quit.

I don't want to get punched in the head anymore. I spent a couple of thousand dollars on the nose and teeth and everything's been readjusted, so I don't want anybody hitting me.

I don't think the Hall of Fame has any credibility unless I'm in it.

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

You have to remember, I had come from a pretty hard life. There was all this abuse and everything else, so the idea of fighting for sport was pretty heavy. Fighting to me was about fighting for your life, you know.

I've won titles all over the world.

To win in my hometown is just a whole 'nother level.

Am I cocky or conceited? I'm definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.

I'd said no to every person, and everybody, for every amount, but I'd wrestle Sakuraba for free.

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 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.

I didn't care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.

I like Cung. He's a good guy and a good martial artist. He doesn't sell a fight very well, but he looks great and he fights hard. He definitely fills two very important requirements for building a fight.

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

It's so much fun to be competitive amongst champions and champion trainers.

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

I had so much personally invested in the vision or the dream or the chance of Strikeforce. It was my whole life. I didn't have another life. That's all that I did.

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.

I had spent three years in jails and prisons, and then all of a sudden I'm in Japan in this dojo. It was just so surreal. I was this young kid and nobody even knew what I was doing there.

Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.