I am a professional martial artist, and I am a professional fighter. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Fighting is fighting. You close your fist and it's all pretty much the same. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
All those fights I've done since 1999, I was either the promoter or co-promoter. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I don't believe that Dana White is a martial artist. I don't see a martial way that he is following. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I've always had trouble with long guys because as a shorter guy I have smaller explosive movements and a lot of long… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
You saw what network support did for Strikeforce when Showtime came aboard. You saw what Spike TV did for the UFC when… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
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… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Fighting is 90% mental. There are people who run from the fire and there are people that turn around and run to… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I'm the first guy to jump on somebody and pick a fight with them, at least verbally, I try to do it… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I stopped being a fighter in 1999 and I became a fight executive the moment I retired and took control of my brand. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Above all things, Strikeforce is a stable, established business that has experience with live events, and it has the martial arts culture.… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I like Cung. He's a good guy and a good martial artist. He doesn't sell a fight very well, but he looks… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
My first ten fights or so it was like that. I was just so scared. You can see if you go back… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
We have been conditioned as a society to believe that you stand there in a gentlemanly fashion and punch each other in… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I mean, I watched Ken train in the gym. Ken was one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. But when he… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
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… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
The face of our sport is Dana White and out here in conservative New York, the way people think, bald-headed, tattoo'd, swearing… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I didn't want to keep fighting and risking injury to my body when the pay wasn't where I needed it to be.… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places.… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I hate to say it but I'd much rather have Viacom behind me than the UFC. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
You're trying to control somebody? Take wrestling, because that's how you get it done. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
In boxing there are only two ways out: you get knocked out or you quit. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
The problem is that the top five guys in UFC make all the money, and the rest make scraps. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Fighting is 90% mental. There are people who run from the fire and there are people that turn around and run to the fire. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
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… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
Fighting is fighting. You close your fist and it's all pretty much the same. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
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… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
I've always had trouble with long guys because as a shorter guy I have smaller explosive movements and a lot of long guys I… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
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… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
I just want to be known as the guy who made a difference because he really believed. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
I was raised by the state of California, and then various families and mentors. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share
