Top 50 Mirko Cro Cop Quotes

Of course I could keep fighting, but every man comes to the point when he asks himself, ‘Do I need it anymore?’

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it’s a little bit different.

I broke people’s bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc… I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

People ask me if I’m going to open a school. Why not? I think I should. Maybe not a typical school where anyone can come but with young fighters definitely one day. I don’t have the nerves for amateurs.

I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.

I’ve heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.

Gabriel Gonzaga is a very solid fighter, and I’ve seen some of his fights. He’s a tough guy.

I need to raise my kids. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to raise kids and make men of them these days. I don’t want them to be lazy and just spend their father’s money.

I’m a guy who likes to have fun, and I like everything normal people like, but I am always quoted before the fight when I’m jet-lagged and focused. In everyday life, I am different.

It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.

I’m not allowed to be woken up under any circumstances except if my house starts burning. Then my wife is authorised to wake me up, but only if fire gets to the door of my room.

I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.

Frank Mir is gonna be my toughest fight in my UFC career. It won’t be easy.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.

I’m not angry or anything at Sonnen, but I will say one thing – I hope nobody gets offended; I don’t wanna sound disgusting, and I am certainly not fan of any anthropologic theories – but you can see on that guy’s face that he is limited and stupid, and his IQ is not higher than the size of the shoes he’s wearing.

In 1993, I joined the Croatian army. I was a radio telegraphist.

Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That’s all I’m doing. I’m staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.

Even the biggest heroes turn into cowards when they get tired.

Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.

I just hope that God will give me the strength that I can prove my worth.

Low kicks, you need to throw at least 20 to finish the guy, and he has 20 chances to block you, and you can break your leg.

I have to be honest: when you have 70 fights under your belt, your priorities change.

The UFC has been so good to me over the years, and it is hard to leave this company and this sport.

I don’t want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we’ll see what’s next.

The best feeling in the world is a hard workout, a shower, and a protein shake.

I think I owe a lot to the UFC and UFC fans.

Training is not the key. Head is the key. For me, it’s head. How aggressive you will be. Who will attack first? But you need to be good in your head, and there will be no problem.

All of the people I have lost against, I always want to fight again.

I had it on my mind that I will fight in Cologne, because UFC is coming to Germany, where the biggest and largest Croatian community lives there. It was my big, big, big wish to participate. Even my doctor didn’t believe I will make it, but I did.

I train in the cage all the time. I have my own cage in my gym.

People don’t get it. Martial arts is my life.

This fire in me will last forever.

I’m not old. I’m 37, but I can do things that fighters 10 years younger cannot. I will prove that, or I will die trying.

I was training in an old garage – just a roof. And when its snowed, it would cover the floor, so I would have to clear this first. I didn’t have a punch bag. There was no place to buy it, so I managed to get a speed ball, but it didn’t have the swivel mechanism, so I just nailed it to the ceiling and started kicking.

I feel that Japan is like my second home; this is where I want to fight.

Sooner or later, the time comes when a man has to think on the health. I had a really long and great career, and I believe I left a deep mark in the martial arts. I have no regrets.

Even though I didn’t do as well in the UFC as the rest of my career, I feel like I did everything that I could to have an overall successful career.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I’ve been worn out.

When I came to UFC, I was treated like a king.

For my whole career, I didn’t have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners.

I really believe that I’m a better fighter than Gabriel Gonzaga.

People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years.

It’s not up to me. I will fight whoever the UFC puts in front of me. If it was up to me, I want to fight Dana White.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was ‘life and death’ sparring – it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Everything was good when I was in Japan, and then, unfortunately, the injuries started.

I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn’t have motivation to go on.

I think it’s stupid to say a guy who has trained in jiu-jitsu for as long as I have is just a stand-up fighter. I have trained with some of the best black belts in the world. I am comfortable on the ground. I can fight wherever the fight goes and not be concerned.

To be a successful fighter now, you have to go to a camp.

Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it’s not good to underestimate him.