Michael Chiesa Quotes

Michael Chiesa

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : December 7, 1987

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.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

I'm not the prettiest. I'm not the best, but I win and that's all that matters in the UFC.

Michael Chiesa

We're never going to solve weight cutting, we need to just get past that. People are always going to cut weight.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

Obviously winning is what's most important, but I need to show people that I've improved.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

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.

Michael Chiesa

I'm always overlooked.

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa

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

Michael Chiesa