Wrestling Quotes by Frank Shamrock

Fighting is a lot of ego, and that's OK.

— Frank Shamrock

I want to fight until the body says 'no.'

— Frank Shamrock

Frank Shamrock knows what he's doing.

— Frank Shamrock

I let my talking happen in the ring.

— Frank Shamrock

Strikeforce was amazing.

— Frank Shamrock

I'd love to fight Dan Henderson.

— Frank Shamrock

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

— Frank Shamrock

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

— Frank Shamrock

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

— Frank Shamrock

You're trying to control somebody? Take wrestling, because that's how you get it done.

— Frank Shamrock

Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time.

— Frank Shamrock

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I’m just the one to teach them.

— Frank Shamrock

Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.

— Frank Shamrock

The problem is that the top five guys in UFC make all the money, and the rest make scraps.

— Frank Shamrock

Now that the sport has gone mainstream, there's a lot of money in fighting. It's always what I've loved to do.

— Frank Shamrock

Only guys who fight for a living know what it's like to be hungry and beaten and tired, mentally, all the time.…

— Frank Shamrock

I came to a realization in 1999 of how important striking was going to become in this sport because it's the most…

— Frank Shamrock

Mixed martial arts chose me. After all the trouble I'd been in, it felt really good fit to find a discipline to…

— Frank Shamrock

I left the UFC after the fight with Ortiz. Tito was the last super tough guy as I had already handled all…

— Frank Shamrock

I've always picked the fight that I thought would, you know what, that guy's really tough, and it's really competitive, but it's…

— Frank Shamrock

When you're in there fighting, there's an energy and there's a focus that is nearly unbreakable.

— Frank Shamrock

Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.

— Frank Shamrock

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

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

The lesson I learned from the Cung Le fight is this: What we do is very dangerous and really shouldn't be played…

— Frank Shamrock

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

My first ten fights or so it was like that. I was just so scared. You can see if you go back…

— Frank Shamrock

Above all things, Strikeforce is a stable, established business that has experience with live events, and it has the martial arts culture.…

— Frank Shamrock

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

We have been conditioned as a society to believe that you stand there in a gentlemanly fashion and punch each other in…

— Frank Shamrock

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

Fighters need someone they can trust. We can't trust anybody.

— Frank Shamrock

Mixed martial arts or whatever you want to call it, it is still martial arts.

— Frank Shamrock

Everyone loves MMA once they see it. But you've got to watch it.

— Frank Shamrock

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

— Frank Shamrock

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

— Frank Shamrock

I hate to say it but I'd much rather have Viacom behind me than the UFC.

— Frank Shamrock

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

— Frank Shamrock

All those fights I've done since 1999, I was either the promoter or co-promoter.

— Frank Shamrock

My kickboxing coach Maurice Smith is one of the best ever.

— Frank Shamrock