Top 44 Frank Mir Quotes

If you don’t hit hard and you weigh 260 pounds, that is something to worry about.

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.

Who you fought is a test of who you really are.

I’m all for CM Punk becoming a part of the organization. I think his background and training in martial arts, he should be capable of handling himself and doing well. And bottom line is, people are going to tune in to watch and that’s pretty much the bar of getting into the UFC, if you can sell tickets.

I love leg locks and heel hooks and kneebars. They’re complex and hard to avoid.

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

Those guys at AKA know how to make adjustments.

I’m pretty well-spoken guy, but I don’t have a college education. Me making money in other avenues is not going to be as easy as walking into the Octagon.

Georges St. Pierre has the best takedowns and dominant wrestling ability, and he’s a great athlete, but he’s shown he can be knocked out. I think B.J. Penn is the better fighter. He’s the great martial artist.

I think the more that people appreciate the sport, the more they’re a fan of it.

I am one of the very few fighters who doesn’t read any type of media.

I enjoy fighting.

In the UFC, you are only as good as your last fight. It’s really a fight-by-fight type of career in the UFC.

There’s guys that wish they were you, so they hate you for being you. And if you add the fact that you’re well-spoken and good-looking… man, I got a lot of people that don’t like me.

Indifference is what death is for us as fighters.

I very much like the Japanese version of pro wrestling, probably the most.

I watched guys who were professional fighters hit each other 30 times, and it still didn’t go anywhere. I thought ‘that wasn’t very effective’ But I saw if you got someone in a choke, you can end a fight in seconds, and I pushed toward that.

I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.

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

Fedor is kind of hard to nail down to one company.

I have an ability to overcome adversity. I’ve got a toughness that helps.

You have to know how to move properly. A lot of these heavyweights go out there and they’re fighting like it’s a street fight. They’re trying to win in the first 30 seconds.

All my kids will train in martial arts; it’s a requirement. Do I want them to fight professionally? Hell no. If they ever step into a cage, I’ll cry. I would rather my daughter and sons be doctors and lawyers or wear a suit to work and use their brain and after work go train at the gym and spar hard.

At least my situation I can be like, look, I avoid physical confrontations, obviously not because I have an issue with physical violence, but I try to see the bigger picture of what it takes for humans to coincide with each other. We’re all the same race.

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.

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

I never found striking to be an effective form of fighting. I still clown people and tell them how animals in the wild that are hunted, they have to strike, bulls and rams, they use striking as protective nature. But the ones who are the predators, they’re the grapplers who go for the throat.

The fight ahead of you is always your most important one.

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.

I think just being in there with Fedor is an impressive thing to be able to say at the end of my career, sitting in my office telling people my accolades.

I think other fighters can see that I’ve had hardships, in and out of the cage, and I’ve persevered and pushed forward. If other people can take that and incorporate it into their lives, then obviously that is rewarding for me to see.

Someone who sees you on a certain night, maybe they’ve seen you on a bad night. I’ve seen Tom Brady throw interceptions. Is it time to retire, or is it a bad game? What if all week in practice he looked phenomenal?

With the half-guard and guard, if you have a belly it’s hard to pull your knees up.

If you were to get a seminar in MMA, I think you’d want one from me over Mark Hunt. I’m more efficient and my understanding of the art is deeper, and I’m still only growing in terms of my intelligence in combat.

Anderson Silva I think is extraordinarily talented, but I don’t think his submission game is great. We’ve seen him get caught in heel hooks.

I remember one time watching Jose Aldo fight Jonathan Brookins, and he just chopped him up.

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.

I don’t perform well when my family isn’t around me.

I thought about 205 for awhile, particular when I was doing the Vegan diet and walking around at about 250lbs. I was counting calories and was serious about whether it was a possibility, but it’s just not for me.

Brock Lesnar will never be able to beat me because he has no submission skills. What’s he going to do, knock me out?

I haven’t fought the easiest opponents. You can show up at your best and still not come out on top.

I want to constantly get better. Why not just keep fighting? Until I get told that I can’t anymore, then I’ll move on.

It was always a goal of mine to go back to Cuba, where my paternal lineage comes from.

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.