Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Chiesa
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American mixed martial artist Michael Chiesa.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
If you look at my fights, you see I finish a lot. It's just how I like to go and I'm always looking for a way to end it.
I will be the UFC lightweight champion. Mark my words.
I've always loved the fight with Khabib.
I had never fought a guy before that I had put on a pedestal the way I did with Carlos Condit. I've got his walkout shirt. He's a former champion. I'm a huge fan. I doubted myself a lot of times.
I won my fight on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my dad died the next day and I stayed in the game and won the whole thing.
I've always just been this hairy, wild man.
Anytime my life has ever thrown me a curveball, I can go back to that and draw a lot of confidence for myself knowing I can persevere.
I could string together 15 wins in a row and still not get a title shot.
I'm not afraid to grapple with anybody in the lightweight division.
My father worked very hard and he never missed a day of work, no matter how sick he was.
My path leads to a world title.
I'd love a training camp. But if they walked in the door right now and said, 'Do you want to fight for the title in the next 10 minutes?' I'm out the door, warming up, ready to go.
I'm just looking forward to a great fight and just to keep making my dad proud.
I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.
I'm not afraid to stand toe-to-toe and throw punches.
I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can't. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.
In the past, I've lacked confidence and sometimes that can show physically.
I believe I'm destined to be a world champion and I'm getting closer to what I want. Part of it is developing a championship mentality and I feel I have that now.
In every fight, I have a spot that I could lose the first round. When do the oddsmakers ever like me? But it's not a math equation, it's a fight.
I've won five bonuses in my nine fight UFC career.
Usually I'm a very instinctive fighter.
I'm not a small guy. I can get up to 205 pounds and be athletic and be in shape.
Mario Yamasaki should just crawl in a hole and never step inside of any type of professional mixed martial arts event. He should never officiate, ever again.
There was once a time when I was the hip necklace wearing guy.
I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.
Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren't.
I'm around a world-class staff that is pushing me to the limit while making sure I don't break myself, which is something I've had a problem with.
Fighting at welterweight, I'm much more active in the gym.
Like every fight, after you make weight, you want to go crazy and eat after you've gone through a camp where you can't do that. So I'd eat pizza and wings and beers.
When you can't do road work for a week-and-a-half, that's really hard on your weight cut.
You're not going to win mental warfare with me. I am one of the mentally toughest guys, if not the mentally toughest guy in the UFC.
I've always prided myself on being mentally tough, but just because you're mentally tough doesn't mean that what's going on between your ears is always good things.
I've always said that as I've gotten older and come into my prime, when I turned 28 would be my best time.
I only want to fight Top 5 guys. I'm here to be a champion.
I really enjoy the opportunity to face another Ultimate Fighter winner because it doesn't come around that often.
When you train outside of camp, it's fun, I'm playing around, I'm working hard but I'm having fun. When I get into that camp it's 10 weeks of tunnel vision on that opponent, you're trying to work on your strengths and weaknesses, really trying to get better in different areas before the fight.
I feel I've always been a fan-friendly fighter.
I haven't fought for a while and didn't want a warm-up fight. I wanted to jump right back in the pit and I got what I asked for. I got Anthony Pettis.
We're never going to solve weight cutting, we need to just get past that. People are always going to cut weight.
The loss of my dad gave me a lot of inspiration because sometimes I stop and think, 'Would everybody have done the same thing that I did?' It was a very tough thing to cope with. I only went home for less than 24 hours.
I train great outside of camp but then once camp starts, it's just a constant weight cut.
I'm a big guy; people don't realize that.
Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.
I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.
Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you've got to be smarter.
I get a pit in my stomach every time I think of that last attempt to make 155 for the Anthony Pettis fight. I just get this nasty feeling in my stomach, because no exaggeration, that was one of the scariest moments of my life. I remember that I couldn't stop my body from shaking.
Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.
With Masvidal, I dropped him and it's the first time I'd ever dropped anyone in my life. I kind of started to turn the corner after that, and it was just a realization that if my hands were a weakness, it was only because I didn't believe in them. I had the talent to do it.
Just do Conor McGregor-Nate Diaz 3 for the 165-pound title. You want to talk about a big fight? That's a big fight. Let's add some weight classes. Let's see more champion versus champion. Let's get some more two division champions.
I've had a mullet the better half of my whole life.
I've talked to my coaches, and I don't even know if I would go to 165. I might go to 175.
I feel blessed that I have a tough opponent in Justin Lawrence.
I know I belong at 170. There is not a shadow of a doubt. This is my division and there's a clearcut path to the title.
I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'
I feel like a fight is a season. When you're in the UFC, one fight is the equivalent of a whole football season, so when you lose a fight, the fans only remember you from your last fight, so it's very important to perform well, and to keep winning.
Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.
I had my sights set on Tony Ferguson for a long time.
Obviously winning is what's most important, but I need to show people that I've improved.
I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.
I'm not the prettiest. I'm not the best, but I win and that's all that matters in the UFC.
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