Frank Mir Quotes

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Frank Mir

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : May 24, 1979

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.

Frank Mir

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.

Frank Mir

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.

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir

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?

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir

If I get too political or if I say things... the whole religious thing, which if you know my background, kind of baffles me anyway. I leave that to the people that are religious and that's their thing. I just try to steer clear of it.

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir

I'd rather fight named fighters and Fedor's somebody I've always wanted to fight and I think that it would be nice to be able to complete that kind of Who's Who of my resume.

Frank Mir

I enjoy fighting.

Frank Mir

I want to fight for as long as possible.

Frank Mir

To have an effective striking match, you need gloves on. Junior dos Santos would have a very short career if he was in a bare knuckle fight. The early UFCs, before gloves, were grappling with some striking.

Frank Mir

I've always been a fan of martial arts, even before I did jiu-jitsu tournaments. I did point karate tournaments and wrestled in high school. To me, it was just an evolution and mixed martial arts was the next step. I just wanted to compete and train in it. I had no illusions of it being a paying gig.

Frank Mir

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.

Frank Mir

I love martial arts, so why wouldn't I want to help people understand it more?

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir

I'm not an unintelligent individual.

Frank Mir

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

Frank Mir