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

Categorized in : Me I Am People Time

The best feeling in the world is a hard workout, a shower, and a protein shake.

Mirko Cro Cop

feeling best hard world

Win or lose, just stay calm.

Mirko Cro Cop

lose win win-or-lose calm

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Mirko Cro Cop

i-am me life death

Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it's not good to underestimate him.

Mirko Cro Cop

i-am good me you

I'm not angry or anything at Sonnen, but I will say one thing - I hope nobody gets offended; I don't wanna sound disgusting, and I am certainly not fan of any anthropologic theories - but you can see on that guy's face that he is limited and stupid, and his IQ is not higher than the size of the shoes he's wearing.

Mirko Cro Cop

i-am you angry hope

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

Mirko Cro Cop

cage than ring different

I just hope that God will give me the strength that I can prove my worth.

Mirko Cro Cop

me strength hope god

I never liked to say any trash talk about anyone, and I never go low on that level.

Mirko Cro Cop

say never go trash

Frank Mir is gonna be my toughest fight in my UFC career. It won't be easy.

Mirko Cro Cop

career gonna fight easy

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

fight you fighter i-can

K-1 is the sport where I started. This is my first love, and I find K-1 more attractive and more suitable for our Croatian fans than MMA.

Mirko Cro Cop

find more fans love

Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.

Mirko Cro Cop

saying win me nonsense

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

Mirko Cro Cop

myself serious hurt people

I've heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.

Mirko Cro Cop

could great couture heard

I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.

Mirko Cro Cop

free fight year up

I was training in an old garage - just a roof. And when its snowed, it would cover the floor, so I would have to clear this first. I didn't have a punch bag. There was no place to buy it, so I managed to get a speed ball, but it didn't have the swivel mechanism, so I just nailed it to the ceiling and started kicking.

Mirko Cro Cop

bag place training speed

In 1993, I joined the Croatian army. I was a radio telegraphist.

Mirko Cro Cop

joined radio army

Low kicks, you need to throw at least 20 to finish the guy, and he has 20 chances to block you, and you can break your leg.

Mirko Cro Cop

finish your need you

The biggest shock was the first fight. I didn't know what to expect. I fought Fujita. At that time, he was one of the most dangerous PRIDE fighters. He was a complete beast and with 130 kilograms of pure muscle.

Mirko Cro Cop

fight know pride time

I really think me and my family live humbly. I've secured my life, and I won't have to open the newspaper and be looking for work.

Mirko Cro Cop

me family work life