Frank Mir

“I've been around long enough to know that you never say never.”

“At first, when I hit 300 pounds, my wife actually brought that up. She said, 'You do realize you can't walk around like this if you want to train or fight. It doesn't look like you want to fight anymore. Do you want to fight?' That called into question my own reality.”

“I'm going to work on finishing Mark Hunt, but he's very hard to hold down. I feel like that's the best opportunity for victory for me.”

“When people are wary about fighting on the ground, I have a more difficult time.”

“I've trained in wing chung, jeet kune do, I've indulged in many arts that people would not have thought I have trained in and incorporated.”

“It has always been a dream of mine to fight in Japan.”

“The margin for error with Mark Hunt is a lot smaller than it is with some of the other heavyweights where you can get caught with a shot and maybe recover.”

“I think Matt Mitrione is a super tough guy, very athletic but I think that I'd probably get more pay-per-view buys if I fought Fedor.”

“The sport has to be entertaining, it has to make money. CM Punk brings that.”

“By training with Ken Hahn, who comes from that full-contact karate school where he's hitting me in the back of the head while I'm hitting the bag, I learned that pain is a temporary state.”

“Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.”

“When people are pushing me against the cage, in the past I was more susceptible to allowing it to happen because I had that jiu-jitsu mentality that I'm not going to grind back.”

“I've finished fights from my feet, I've finished fights with my ground-and-pound, and I've finished fights from my back with a submission, from top with submission. You name it, and I've finished a fight that way.”

“Having my own gym is easier because I have my family here, my kids enjoy watching my practices and I like having them around. It's hard to go to other people's gyms because not everyone if as kid-friendly as I am.”

“Different martial arts have ways of showing you how to control an opponent and put him down, but jiu-jitsu is the king of how to finish somebody. And that's what I love about it.”

“In the future, I'd like to break more into acting and stuff. I think that pro wrestling is a great springboard, really. You see a lot of guys coming from that world. In a lot of ways, it's like live theater. Guys going out there and performing and having to act on the fly and be their own stuntmen at the same time.”

“Competing is something that once I retire from, it's not something I can go back and do.”

“There are too many fights in our sport that are exciting, and you've got to let us fight.”

“I think it would be much easier to submit Mark Hunt than to knock him out. The guy has a pretty good chin, he's not the easiest of guys to put away.”

“I didn't have anything to prove to begin with to anybody else. I didn't start out doing this because I wanted to win awards or titles. I like martial arts, I like training, I like the lifestyle.”