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

Michael Bisping

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo. "

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

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" I've been on both sides of the boos. "

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" 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. "

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" Fighting at home does bring pressure - of course it does. But I've always thrived on that. "

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" Some people are born for a certain thing. And for me, unfortunately, I wish it was something a bit more artistic or whatever, but I was a born fighter. That's what kept me coming back. It makes me feel alive. And, I just know, there is nothing I do better in this world than fight. "

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" The mind controls everything; it really does. "

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