Michael Bisping is a really tough competitor and a hard worker.
— Tito Ortiz
I'm just so intense when I fight, and I think a lot of fans love that.
I had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me.
The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that's it. It wasn't an act because it came from a passion for fighting.
I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don't mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they're gonna become losers.
I did what Jon 'Bones' Jones couldn't do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.
I'm a very emotional person. That's every one of my fights; it's all emotions.
I've seen everything during my career.
Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime.
At the end of the day, I'm a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.
Being outspoken was important... I helped make the UFC what it is today with Chuck Liddell, Royce Gracie, and Randy Couture. Some said I was outspoken in a bad way, but I was just trying to educate the fans what being a UFC fighter is all about.
Man's best friend - that's what dogs are. I have two dogs. I love and treat them like family.
The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.
I made the wrong decision myself in my career. I tried to battle against the system. I should have never done that, but I didn't have anybody else who showed me how to do it before. I did everything on instinct.
Us fighter put our lives on the line to entertain the fans that watch.
I remember from the very beginning when I walked out at UFC 40, when we had the big lights, the flames, everything. Fans want to see entertainment.
I want to be remembered as a fighter with integrity. A fighter who did it this way, who has respect because he wanted to push the envelope for the fighters.
I am one of the guys who really capitalized on the ground-and-pound game and am very vicious on the ground. I let go of a lot of elbows and cause a lot of damage.
I'm a big juicer, and I believe in juicing most vegetables and fruit, which I do twice a day.
Back when the UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, 'Hey, I'm a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,' so I gave it a shot.
I know what it feels like to be broke and alone, and I don't ever want my loved ones to see that or know what it's like.
When you're winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you're losing, that self-doubt is like, 'Am I doing the right thing?'
I punish the guy until the referee pulls me off or until he says 'no more,' and he taps. I don't want to leave any doubt in his mind that he had a chance.
Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.
I did my job to make my name a household name.
I've been able to mature and improve my mixed martial arts game completely; I just never stop learning, and whenever I think I know enough, I just keep working and do more.
For me, boxing's like checkers, and MMA's like chess - there are so many ways to win the match. It's not barbaric; it's boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it's all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.
They eat clean, they don't drink sodas, they don't have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes.
I'm a Trump guy. I wasn't in the beginning, of course. I'm Mexican, when he said we need to take all the Mexicans out of United States... well, good luck on that one. They'll find a way to get back here anyways.
I don't have to prove anything else in this MMA world.
We're fighters. We go out there, and we'll open a window of opportunity, and they're only open for so long, and we have to take advantage of that time right then. When I did it, I was 30-31 years old. Maybe it was a little too late that I should have did it, but I did it right. I was okay with the money that I got, the money that I made.
I look at guys like - guys like Floyd Mayweather making $42 million dollars for a pay-per-view - what am I doing differently from what this guy's doing?
My biggest enemy has been my body.
My biggest enemy has been my surgeries.
Anything with Tito Ortiz's name on it will always involve a bit of controversy.
Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.
I do charity work for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the USO. I made all the money I'm ever going to need - all my family is every going to need - so I try to give back to the community.
I always knew I wanted to have a family because I didn't have one growing up.
I'm invested in the UFC, but I'm invested in myself at the same time, showing everyone that I am one of the greatest.
When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.
I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.
The 'Apprentice' was tough, tough work. It was all for charity, so I was thankful for the money Donald Trump gave me when I was fired.
My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I've broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; 'Dad I love you,' that is what means the most to me.
From a kid who didn't come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today... I tell kids, 'You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.'
My kids come first on all measures.
I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.
Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.
Maybe UFC and Bellator should take care of the fighters when their careers are done, as the NFL takes care of their players. Because they're making so much money off us.
At the end of the day, us fighters, all we have is respect.
I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder.
