A biography for Frank Shamrockhasn’t been written yet.
“You're trying to control somebody? Take wrestling, because that's how you get it done.”
“I actually threw rocks at a train and in California, that's a felony. I went and did ten days in juvenile hall.”
“Strikeforce was amazing.”
“To win in my hometown is just a whole 'nother level.”
“I was raised by the state of California, and then various families and mentors.”
“The world I live in is vastly different than what other people are living in. It's a dream.”
“I think I'll be the face of the sport.”
“As a martial artist, I discovered that there's always so much more to learn.”
“The lesson I learned from the Cung Le fight is this: What we do is very dangerous and really shouldn't be played with. I should have just knocked him out, not let him dance around and look good.”
“What mixed martial arts is being marketed as is not the truth. We're not a bunch of idiots in a cage drinking beer all the time. It's a lifestyle, but it's a positive lifestyle.”
“All those fights I've done since 1999, I was either the promoter or co-promoter.”
“Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.”
“Fighting is a lot of ego, and that's OK.”
“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 trained in Japan with Funaki and Suzuki. Then I learned jiu-jitsu and sambo with Oleg Taktarov and Gokor Chivichyan.”
“I took a lot of physical punishment learning the art of fighting.”
“I became a free agent in 1999. I retired, that's how I got out of my contract. From that moment on, I've always been in control of my own destiny.”
“I don't believe that Dana White is a martial artist. I don't see a martial way that he is following.”
“Now that the sport has gone mainstream, there's a lot of money in fighting. It's always what I've loved to do.”
“Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.”
“My first ten fights or so it was like that. I was just so scared. You can see if you go back and watch them that there are moments where I just stop and look around, like, what's going on here? I was so scared for all those fights.”