Author Profile
Ken Shamrock
1964 • American • Athlete
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Showing 59 quotesThe fans are most important... when it comes to the entertainment industry. They are the ones that matter most, and they should be heard.— Ken Shamrock
No matter how tough you are or how much willpower or determination you have, if there's something wrong with your body, it's going to shut down and stop. It's good to have those qualities, but it's important to know what you're pushing against.— Ken Shamrock
My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.— Ken Shamrock
If you stay in the guard and control the hips and flatten him out, you can control him. And that was the start of ground-and-pound.— Ken Shamrock
Because of who I am and what I've accomplished, everything is pretty much given to me. People cater to me all the time. It's almost like I've lost that edge - lost the ability to want something and then put in the work necessary to get it.— Ken Shamrock
I learned a long time ago that you need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down.— Ken Shamrock
Bellator offered me a job. UFC never offered me an opportunity to fight. There's no question that UFC is the top. It's a machine. A lot of people, including myself, have helped build the UFC to where it is today.— Ken Shamrock
WWE is something I'm looking at. Definitely have been throwing little feelers out there to get an opportunity. Because I have achieved everything that I have set out to do in every organization except the WWE. I didn't get the world title. I got everything else but that.— Ken Shamrock
I've been very fortunate to be at the startup of a lot of different things. I was the startup of the Pancrase organization in Japan. Became a big figure over there. Then I was in the UFC and was at the startup of that, and I was a big figure in that. Twice. Not only in the beginning but also when it was taken over.— Ken Shamrock
I want the ankle match with Kurt Angle... or I want Brock to see who is the best from MMA and pro wrestling.— Ken Shamrock
I'm gonna write a book. I'm going to explain over the past 30 years of my life of things that I endured and what I went through. And when I do, I promise you with everything that I am that people will not believe me. But I have factual proof of everything that has happened to me, and I have been able to overcome.— Ken Shamrock
Everybody knows how to get prepared for an MMA fight. Everybody knows what the other person is going to do. Whereas when I did it, MMA was really style against style. Things you hadn't seen before, you'd see for the first time. People didn't know how to train properly for it, and the coaching wasn't there yet, either.— Ken Shamrock
I think a lot of people miss what I've done in the MMA world. How I was able to market and control the industry so that people wanted to watch my fights. If you look at the fights I've been involved in - in the SEG UFC, in Japan, for Zuffa and today, they have been fights that have turned companies around.— Ken Shamrock
After several different marriages and failures, my mom started turning to the Lord. So she brought us to church. We got involved with the youth programs, and I got on fire a couple months in, like, 'Wow, this feels good.' At 10 years old, you don't know. It felt good.— Ken Shamrock
I've never really gone out and told people, 'I'm a Christian. I believe in God, and that is the reason why I'm successful. That is the reason why I'm still here doing what I'm doing.'— Ken Shamrock
You want to talk about somebody that has changed the face of wrestling because of them being in it, I think it's pretty clear I did that.— Ken Shamrock
I captured Tag Team, Intercontinental, Rookie Of The Year, King Of The Ring, everything but the heavyweight title. I would hope that, somewhere down the road all the differences would be put aside and allow me to come back and at least get a shot at the heavyweight title, and I hope Brock Lesnar has it, cause I'd like to come after him.— Ken Shamrock