Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Bisping - Page 2

Big respect to Dan Henderson.

'The Ultimate Fighter' has found lots of great talent.

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

Stefan Struve's an amazing talent.

People say sometimes that I'm distracted. I'm not distracted. I'm being smart. I'm capitalizing while the iron is hot. That's why I'm trying to do movies. I do the podcast. I do a radio show. I work on FOX. I have a gym; I have a lot of things going on. That's because when I'm done, I want to be set up.

There will always be a place for 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

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.

I am very, very hungry to compete.

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 always support British athletes of all sports, including Tyson Fury. I think he's a great boxer. However, if he's calling out UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez, then quite frankly, he's living in a fantasy world and needs to come back to reality.

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

You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that's fine... fighters do that.

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.

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.

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

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.

I fought Dan Henderson in 2009, and I lost, and that was at UFC 100 - UFC 100 was the biggest pay-per-view the company's ever done. 1.6 million pay-per-view buys, watched all over the world, and of course, I get knocked out cold after talking lots of smack leading up to the fight. So I got my just desserts in that one.

As a fighter, you know when you connect with a really good shot because you feel the impact on your fist.

I can wrestle a little bit, but I'm not Chael Sonnen.

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

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

As the UFC was getting bigger and bigger, I realized it was a potential career there, and that's what I did.

For me, 'The Ultimate Fighter' has been massive. I think it is a fantastic vehicle to find the new talent of tomorrow.

Fighting in England, for me, is the height of my career. It really is.

Best move is probably the flying knee I used in the Ultimate Fighter semi-final v Ross Pointon in 2006.

The mind controls everything; it really does.

I've had ups and downs in my career, and if you look at it as a bookmaker, the odds of me becoming a world champion were never in my favour, but I never stopped believing in myself and never stopped trying.

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.

For so many years, people have used the expression 'poster boy of British MMA,' but I've never seen myself as that; I certainly never described myself as that.

In MMA, I found my calling.

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

I just like doing normal things, going to the shops in Manchester, getting a meal with my girlfriend and kids, going to the cinema. I love Las Vegas and there places, but I couldn't live there.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

All I do is fight, consistently, the best guys in the world, and sure, I've lost a couple here and there, but I've certainly won the majority of my fights. There are those who pick and choose opponents and try to pad their record along the way, but I've never done that.

I used to do traditional weapons training, and I wasn't bad with a sword.

'300' is a bit cheesy but enjoyable.

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

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

I stay off the booze for a whole 12 weeks before a fight, it can be tough!

I think everyone in all due respect just needs to calm down Chris Weidman just because he’s undefeated. He’s undefeated because he’s beaten a bunch of bums. He’s only had about seven fights. I’ve had nearly 30 fights. I’ve been in the UFC when he was still in school probably. So I got nothing against Chris Weidman, but I don’t see him as the Great White Hope that’s going to come in and destroy Anderson Silva. He’s just another middle of the road UFC fighter as far as I’m concerned.