"I'm not part of the history, I am the history."

-- Royce Gracie

“The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.”
“I grew up in New York. We were all diversified, as far as music was concerned. I grew up liking just about everything. So I tried to incorporate that into my playing, although the original school where I came from was Afro-Cuban music. But I liked all kinds of music -- I tried to bring that into everything.”
“Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.”

Source : Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.251, Chicago Review Press
“When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.”
“The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.”
“I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.”
“We were always dead against the war.”
“As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.”

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