Of course, having a lack of emotions saves you from doing a big crying scene in the movie or something. I would try to remove myself from any situation before a scene or something like that, and just sit and think about absolutely nothing. Rich Franklin More Quotes by Rich Franklin More Quotes From Rich Franklin Losing is inevitable, make sure you have the tools in your toolbox to deal with it. Rich Franklin mma tools losing You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter. Rich Franklin fighting successful moving You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter. Rich Franklin cages quitting two There's always that part of you, when you're sitting around going, 'That would be cool to try, to see what it would be like.' But I had never had that drive in me to say, 'Oh, I want to be a movie star one day.' Rich Franklin being-cool one-day trying When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person. Rich Franklin mma persons shows I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds Rich Franklin fighting broken winning For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began Rich Franklin six fighting thinking When I go to throw a punch, actually, my intention is to hit somebody. That's just second nature to me. So you have to just rewire yourself. It's not something where you have to sit and subconsciously think about it, but you kind of have to just put yourself in that mode and go with it. Learning the fight scenes, I've never had to learn choreography before, so learning the fight scenes was like learning a dance or something like that. I had a little bit of influence in the fight scenes and I tried to put as much influence there as I could, but I had fun doing it. Rich Franklin fighting fun thinking I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a guy who did this for his first time, he didn't do too bad,' and some people will be like, 'Rich Franklin sucks.' It doesn't matter what you do, you will always have people on every side of that spectrum, so I would imagine for me it wouldn't be any different. Rich Franklin guy people thinking
