Top 60 Michael Chiesa Quotes

Anytime I’ve won a fight and asked for an opponent, I’ve usually gotten it, and that’s because it’s all well thought-out.

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.

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.

Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.

I think Gilbert Burns is going to become my greatest rival.

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.

Usually I’m a very instinctive fighter.

I train great outside of camp but then once camp starts, it’s just a constant weight cut.

I was the second guy to submit Jim Miller, so I’m up there in catching guys that have been deemed uncatchable.

Whenever I get matched up with a guy, I always look at who beat him and I’ve got to be better than those guys.

I could string together 15 wins in a row and still not get a title shot.

I only want to fight Top 5 guys. I’m here to be a champion.

My father worked very hard and he never missed a day of work, no matter how sick he was.

I’m not a small guy. I can get up to 205 pounds and be athletic and be in shape.

Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.

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’m a blue collar guy from Spokane, Washington, who was raised to just be respectful, be a sportsman, and just speak with your performances, and I’m glad that I’m back to my old ways.

Give Tony Ferguson a title fight. He needs it!

I show up to win. I don’t show up to hurt a guy. I don’t show up with emotion.

I’ve always loved the fight with Khabib.

I’m not afraid to grapple with anybody in the lightweight division.

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.

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.

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.

It’s never easy to watch. It’s never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

I don’t take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.

In the past, I’ve lacked confidence and sometimes that can show physically.

I’m not afraid to stand toe-to-toe and throw punches.

I just don’t throw things against the wall that aren’t gonna stick.

I’ve won five bonuses in my nine fight UFC career.

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 won my fight on ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ my dad died the next day and I stayed in the game and won the whole thing.

There’s only one guy at 170 that’s bigger than me, and that’s Darren Till.

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 don’t classify myself as a wrestler, I’m a grappler.

I’ve talked to my coaches, and I don’t even know if I would go to 165. I might go to 175.

Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I’m ready to walk through the fire.

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’ve always just been this hairy, wild man.

When you can’t do road work for a week-and-a-half, that’s really hard on your weight cut.

Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you’ve got to be smarter.

I’m a big guy; people don’t realize that.

There was once a time when I was the hip necklace wearing guy.

I really enjoy the opportunity to face another Ultimate Fighter winner because it doesn’t come around that often.

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.

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 am a nerd about this sport. I know guys’ records, who they fought, how they win, who they’re married to, where they eat dinner, what kind of car do they drive. I’m a big nerd of the sport, so it would be easy for me to sit in front of a table of guys and just talk about fighting.

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 always overlooked.

I really feel like going up to 170, I’m going to really be able to show my skill set.

I think Neil Magny gets picked on a lot because people don’t think he is that good. I like the guy a lot.

Bar none, hands down, no matter what division I’m in, I am one of the best fighters in the world.

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 got as high as being ranked 7th at lightweight and I really believe this deep down to my bones that I was really only fighting to half my potential.

170 is not a popularity contest. 170 is a working man‘s weight class where you work hard, you get your rewards whereas at lightweight, it wasn’t the same. You could work as hard as you want, win as many fights as you want, and there’s no promise what you’re going to get out of it.

I’m not here to be mediocre. I’m not in the UFC just to get a paycheck and make a living. That’s really not what I’m here for. If I wanted to make money, I would have gotten out of the sport and done something else. I want to be a world champion.

If you’re gonna get punched in the face, elbowed, cut up, busted up, injured, have to cut weight, have to bring yourself to the brink of death to show up the next day and try to put on the performance of your life, you’ve gotta love it. And if I don’t love it, it’s just not worth it to me.

I’m letting my coaches take the reins more. Letting them make the decisions on what’s going to be a hard practice, what’s not going to be a hard practice and also this weight cutting thing. It’s the best decision I’ve made in my entire career.

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 will be the UFC lightweight champion. Mark my words.