Michael Bisping Quotes

I swear to God, I don’t even know who Demi Lovato is. My son has a crush on her. Apparently, he was sat next to her when I knocked Luke Rockhold out, so Demi Lovato knows who I am, that’s for sure.

I am very, very hungry to compete.

‘The Ultimate Fighter’ has found lots of great talent.

If a football player has a bad game, he’s allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it’s once every few months.

If you want to boo, that’s your right. Boo. Go ahead. Boo me all day long.

Ultimately, when two professionals meet, I don’t really see the location as being a defining factor. If you’re a psychologically weak fighter, maybe it would be. But if you’re a seasoned pro, it doesn’t really come into it.

People give me advice all the time, and I don’t take a blind bit of notice.

I was a big fan of martial arts movies – Bruce Lee in particular, as cringeworthy as it is. Jean-Claude van Damme was a big inspiration as well – it’s a little embarrassing.

Obviously, every fighter wants to be the world champion, and that’s what I want to achieve.

I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death, so I dropped out.

The more in shape you are, the harder you can push yourself.

I think it’s just in human nature: if you’ve got two guys fighting, and you don’t really know them, you’re going to root for the guy who comes from your country.

‘300’ is a bit cheesy but enjoyable.

Once I started fighting in UFC, things took a big U-turn. After my second fight, I came home and paid my mortgage off.

I can’t understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can’t go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

I’m not going to please everyone; not everyone’s going to like me. I accepted that a long time ago, and if I had to shed a tear every time I got a hate email, believe me, I’d be severely dehydrated.

I’m generally an optimist, but of course, when you’ve been with the UFC for a decade and still not had a title shot, there is a little part of you that wonders if it will ever happen.

Without wishing to sound arrogant, when I was younger, I used to win every single martial arts tournament I ever entered. I used to enter the under 14s and under 16s, win both gold medals in those, and then go in the men‘s tournament just for experience, and end up getting a silver medal.

Maybe when I’m done fighting, I’ll open a gym and manage fighters and train fighters.

Financially, I’ve done very well doing what I do. I’ve got plenty of money in the bank. I’ve got gigs with FOX doing analyst work, media work. The UFC has been very kind to me. Ultimately, however, I want to be world champion. I have to achieve that to validate my entire career.

Of course it’s an honour to be fighting at UFC 100, but I don’t sit back and think about that. For me, it is only ever about winning.

I often put my foot in it a little bit sometimes.

I always wanted to be the champion, and I had belief in myself that I could achieve it. But along the way, of course, you’ve also got to be a realist. You lose a couple of fights here and there, and you think maybe it’s not going to happen.

Let’s be honest: I don’t want to walk out to boos. I always want to be cheered, like anyone, and I’ve been very lucky over the years to have a lot of support. Coming to America, I’m always the away guy, and so people thought their guy had to take me out, and they boo.

I started learning jiujitsu when I was eight years old. I had a lot of success and won ever competition I even entered.

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

I want to be the first British person to lift a UFC World Title.

It seems, whenever there are two Brits fighting in the UFC, we always seem to put on a good fight.

The underdog status suits me just fine.

I don’t need others to push me. I push myself.

I’ve beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I’ve lost them all. I don’t want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.

One of my proudest moments is definitely UFC 105 in Manchester when I stopped Denis Kang in the second round.

Omelettes, I’d say, are my secret weapon in terms of diet: I love them, they’re nice and easy to make, they’re very nutritious, and they’re low in carbs.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

What matters – the only thing that matters – is winning. It’s nice to entertain the fans and to gain new ones, especially from the States, but on the night… that’s all that matters.

I’ve already been KO’d, embarrassed. Nothing is going to be worse than that, so what’s to be scared of?

It seems like every problem you can have with an eye, I had.

There will always be a place for ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’

A lot of Americans say the food in England sucks. I don’t think the food in England sucks – the food is great – but I’ve got to say, the Americans have got the dining out experience nailed down.

I’m in a sport where, on their day, anyone can beat anyone else if they are at the top of their own game.

I have nothing against America; I love spending time there. I fell in love with the country the very first time I went out there, and I have a lot of fans in the U.S.

I hate the expression, ‘I’m not fake.’

In my teenage years, I started kickboxing, then did a little boxing. When the UFC and MMA exploded in the early 2000s in the U.S.A. and Japan, I saw a way to make money and a career.

There’s no shortage of fighting talent in the UFC; that’s what makes it such a great organisation, and that’s why I’m so proud to be a part of it.

I’m an emotional fighter; that’s no secret. But it can be detrimental.