113 Quotes by Frank Shamrock

I speak the truth on what happened to me because it's happening to a lot of people that grow up in displaced and disadvantaged communities.

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

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

Fighting is fighting. You close your fist and it's all pretty much the same.

We have been conditioned as a society to believe that you stand there in a gentlemanly fashion and punch each other in the head until someone is unconscious and we celebrate. We celebrate the fact that I can punch him in the head until he is unconscious and can't think straight and stand up. I gotta tell you, I have a problem with that sport.

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

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

I have a platform to tell the truth.

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.