Michael Bisping

“I love the way of life out in California, and I've made a lot of friends out there. The food is amazing.”

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

“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.”

“I'm very happy with my wrestling.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When I'm in the gym, different training partners tell me that I've got great conditioning, and I tell them, 'Really? Because, I'm dying here.' I think that I'm just as tired as anyone; I just push myself mentally.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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's going to take more than one loss for me to hang up my gloves; that's for sure.”

“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.”

“I have been involved in this sport since I was eight years old, so, hopefully, I can train and coach athletes down the line.”

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

“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.”