Mirko Cro Cop : (3)

" For my whole career, I didn’t have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners. " - Mirko Cro Cop

" People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years. " - Mirko Cro Cop

" 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