Michael Bisping Quotes

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Michael Bisping

Profession : Athlete

Birth : February 28, 1979

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?

Michael Bisping

I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.

Michael Bisping

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

Michael Bisping

I hate it when people call me a cage fighter. I'm a mixed martial artist. But people take one look at what we do, and they just start making assumptions.

Michael Bisping

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.

Michael Bisping

The Liverpool lad Darren Till looked unbelievable in his UFC debut, and he seems like quite a character.

Michael Bisping

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.

Michael Bisping

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

Michael Bisping

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.

Michael Bisping

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.

Michael Bisping

I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don't have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.

Michael Bisping

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.

Michael Bisping

When everybody fought Anderson Silva in the past, they were terrified of him. Absolutely terrified. That's part of the reason why he was so successful.

Michael Bisping

I hit as hard and as fast in the first week of camp as I do in the last week of camp. So it doesn't matter if it's two weeks' notice or 10 weeks' notice.

Michael Bisping

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

Michael Bisping

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.

Michael Bisping

I used to be weak - as did all British fighters - with wrestling, because we don't have high school wrestling or college wrestling here.

Michael Bisping

You've got to sell fights; you've got to be entertaining.

Michael Bisping

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

Michael Bisping

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

Michael Bisping