Mirko Cro Cop Quotes

Mirko Cro Cop

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 10, 1974

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.

Mirko Cro Cop

I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.

Mirko Cro Cop

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.

Mirko Cro Cop

Of course I will submit if I have a chance, but I always prefer to finish a fight in a stand-up position.

Mirko Cro Cop

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.

Mirko Cro Cop

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.

Mirko Cro Cop

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

Mirko Cro Cop

Talking about a fight with Randy Couture is a jinx for me.

Mirko Cro Cop

I will keep fighting as long as I can, as long as I'm going to feel fit, as long as people would like to see me fighting, and that's it.

Mirko Cro Cop

I think I should be respectful of fighters. This sport is brutal enough itself. I don't think you should say stupid statements or should act like savages.

Mirko Cro Cop

I'm 240, and I'm not fat.

Mirko Cro Cop

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

Mirko Cro Cop

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.

Mirko Cro Cop

First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.

Mirko Cro Cop

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

Mirko Cro Cop

I'm not the kind of fighter who just hates each other before the fight. I can talk to you until one minute before the fight, and then I will take your head off if I can.

Mirko Cro Cop

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

Mirko Cro Cop

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.

Mirko Cro Cop

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

Mirko Cro Cop

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

Mirko Cro Cop