“Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.” — Frank Shamrock Quote

Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.

With Strikeforce, we didn't have the capitalization to take advantage of our initial success.

I'd been an entrepreneur, a very focused businessman, spokesman, and ran multiple companies based around Strikeforce. When it changed hands, my whole life stopped.

You have to remember, I had come from a pretty hard life. There was all this abuse and everything else, so the idea of fighting for sport was pretty heavy. Fighting to me was about fighting for your life, you know.

I've been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

You don't get to this position or this level of fighting or a record like mine by beating nobodies.

I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.

We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.