Michael Chiesa Quotes

Michael Chiesa

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : December 7, 1987

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.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

I had my sights set on Tony Ferguson for a long time.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

I'm just looking forward to a great fight and just to keep making my dad proud.

Michael Chiesa

I at least have to cut my hair. I can't do the whole man bun, funky long hair thing anymore.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

I've always loved the fight with Khabib.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

I've had a mullet the better half of my whole life.

Michael Chiesa

I've always just been this hairy, wild man.

Michael Chiesa

Fighting at welterweight, I'm much more active in the gym.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa