A biography for Frank Shamrockhasn’t been written yet.
“This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That was the original draw behind the sport. That's what caught everybody's attention.”
“I grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.”
“I looked at my own fights: everyone's excited and I was all disappointed that my techniques didn't work.”
“The sport really hasn't changed, but the world did. That's why it's more acceptable.”
“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.”
“I've won titles all over the world.”
“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.”
“I used to live on the streets.”
“My natural body weight is about 183 pounds. I've just always tried to keep 10 pounds of muscle on me because the bigger you were before, the more money you made. I always tried to cut at least five pounds to get to 185.”
“I had so much personally invested in the vision or the dream or the chance of Strikeforce. It was my whole life. I didn't have another life. That's all that I did.”
“I mean as a human being I'm happy to be working, but, I look back on my career and I mean, you know, a lot of people worry about what didn't happen, but I'm just happy for what I've got.”
“I mean, I watched Ken train in the gym. Ken was one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. But when he got into a fight, it would be half of him. He was wrestling with a lot more in there than just beating his opponent.”
“Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.”
“Everyone loves MMA once they see it. But you've got to watch it.”
“The problem is that the top five guys in UFC make all the money, and the rest make scraps.”
“From day one I knew Pro Elite didn't know what they were doing.”
“I wasn't fighting because I was a sportsman. I was fighting because I had no other way. I didn't have a career. I was a multi-felony convicted guy.”
“I let my talking happen in the ring.”
“I didn't care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.”
“It's so much fun to be competitive amongst champions and champion trainers.”