113 Quotes by Frank Shamrock

The truth is, I have nothing to gain from ever fighting anybody.

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 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 am a professional martial artist, and I am a professional fighter.

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.

Mixed martial arts chose me. After all the trouble I'd been in, it felt really good fit to find a discipline to train and build a community around my goals.

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.

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 grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.