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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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Break
#Limit
#Me
#Myself
#Something
Usually I'm a very instinctive fighter.
- Michael Chiesa
#Fighter
#Instinctive
#Very
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Confidence
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Myself
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Champion
#Myself
#Never
#Shirt
#Way
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Back
#Fight
#Jump
#Right
#Warm-Up
My path leads to a world title.
- Michael Chiesa
#Leads
#Path
#Title
#World
I feel I've always been a fan-friendly fighter.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Been
#Feel
#Fighter
#I Feel
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Finish
#Look
#Looking
#See
#Way
Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.
- Michael Chiesa
#Fire
#Me
#Ready
#Through
#Walk
I only want to fight Top 5 guys. I'm here to be a champion.
- Michael Chiesa
#Champion
#Fight
#Only
#Top
#Want
I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'
- Michael Chiesa
#Become
#Fighter
#Got
#Ultimate
I really enjoy the opportunity to face another Ultimate Fighter winner because it doesn't come around that often.
- Michael Chiesa
#Come
#Face
#Fighter
#Opportunity
#Winner
I've always said that as I've gotten older and come into my prime, when I turned 28 would be my best time.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Best
#Come
#Said
#Time
In the past, I've lacked confidence and sometimes that can show physically.
- Michael Chiesa
#Confidence
#Past
#Show
#Sometimes
I feel blessed that I have a tough opponent in Justin Lawrence.
- Michael Chiesa
#Blessed
#Feel
#I Feel
#Opponent
#Tough
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Dad
#Home
#Loss
#Me
#Tough
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
#Battle
#Comfort
#Demons
#Mind
#Tough
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Good Things
#Good
#Mean
#Myself
#Tough
I will be the UFC lightweight champion. Mark my words.
- Michael Chiesa
#Champion
#Mark
#UFC
#Will
#Words
I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.
- Michael Chiesa
#Guy
#Hurt
#Show
#Up
#Win
I'm not afraid to grapple with anybody in the lightweight division.
- Michael Chiesa
#Afraid
#Anybody
#Division
#Lightweight
My father worked very hard and he never missed a day of work, no matter how sick he was.
- Michael Chiesa
#Day
#Father
#Matter
#Never
#Work
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
#Believe
#Champion
#I Believe
#Now
#World
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
#Believe
#Hands
#Life
#Talent
#Time
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
#Dad
#Day
#Fight
#Fighter
#Game
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
#Going
#Guy
#I Am
#Me
#Win
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
#Doing
#Fight
#Me
#Picture
#Words
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
#Body
#Fight
#Life
#My Life
#Time
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
#Even
#Go
#Know
#Might
#Would
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
#Big
#Champion
#Fight
#See
#Talk
We're never going to solve weight cutting, we need to just get past that. People are always going to cut weight.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Need
#Never
#Past
#People
I'm not the prettiest. I'm not the best, but I win and that's all that matters in the UFC.
- Michael Chiesa
#Best
#Matters
#Prettiest
#UFC
#Win
I'm not afraid to stand toe-to-toe and throw punches.
- Michael Chiesa
#Afraid
#Punches
#Stand
#Throw
Fighting at welterweight, I'm much more active in the gym.
- Michael Chiesa
#Active
#Fighting
#Gym
#More
#Much
I've had a mullet the better half of my whole life.
- Michael Chiesa
#Better
#Had
#Half
#Life
#Whole
I've won five bonuses in my nine fight UFC career.
- Michael Chiesa
#Career
#Fight
#Five
#Nine
#Won
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Best
#Career
#Decision
#Hard
#Practice
I've always just been this hairy, wild man.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Hairy
#Just
#Man
#Wild
There's only one guy at 170 that's bigger than me, and that's Darren Till.
- Michael Chiesa
#Bigger
#Guy
#Me
#Only
#Than
I'm not a small guy. I can get up to 205 pounds and be athletic and be in shape.
- Michael Chiesa
#Guy
#I Can
#Shape
#Small
#Up
I'm a big guy; people don't realize that.
- Michael Chiesa
#Big Guy
#Big
#Guy
#People
#Realize
When you can't do road work for a week-and-a-half, that's really hard on your weight cut.
- Michael Chiesa
#Hard
#Road
#Weight
#Work
#Your
I'm always overlooked.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Overlooked
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
#Every
#Fight
#First
#Lose
#Me
Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.
- Michael Chiesa
#Fighter
#Growth
#Looking Back
#Time
I train great outside of camp but then once camp starts, it's just a constant weight cut.
- Michael Chiesa
#Great
#Once
#Outside
#Train
#Weight
If you win one fight in the UFC, you're good. If you win two in a row, you're great.
- Michael Chiesa
#Fight
#Good
#Great
#Two
#Win
Bar none, hands down, no matter what division I'm in, I am one of the best fighters in the world.
- Michael Chiesa
#Best
#Hands
#I Am
#Matter
#World
I'm a huge lightweight.
- Michael Chiesa
#Huge
#Lightweight
I'm in this sport to test myself. I want to see how far I can take this thing.
- Michael Chiesa
#Far
#I Can
#Myself
#See
#Test
I think the Eddie Alvarez fight is a good fight that makes sense - a couple Italian guys throwing down. I've got nothing but respect for the guy.
- Michael Chiesa
#Down
#Fight
#Good
#Nothing
#Respect
I had my sights set on Tony Ferguson for a long time.
- Michael Chiesa
#Long Time
#Long
#Set
#Sights
#Time
I could string together 15 wins in a row and still not get a title shot.
- Michael Chiesa
#Get
#Shot
#Still
#Title
#Together
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
#Door
#Fight
#Love
#Right
#Training
I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.
- Michael Chiesa
#Down
#Guy
#Hold
#Just
#Look
I always want to fight guys that want to test me.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Fight
#Me
#Test
#Want
I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.
- Michael Chiesa
#Classify
#Myself
#Wrestler
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Division
#Doubt
#Know
#Path
#Shadow
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Anytime
#Because
#Fight
#Opponent
#Well
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
#Me
#Mom
#Old
#Rent
#Two
I'm just looking forward to a great fight and just to keep making my dad proud.
- Michael Chiesa
#Dad
#Fight
#Great
#Keep
#Looking Forward
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
#Fight
#Football
#Lose
#Remember
#Winning
I've always loved the fight with Khabib.
- Michael Chiesa
#Always
#Fight
#Loved
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
#Crazy
#Fight
#Go
#Pizza
#Wings
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.
- Michael Chiesa
#Day
#Death
#Face
#Life
#Love
My love for mixed martial arts will never waver.
- Michael Chiesa
#Arts
#Love
#Mixed
#Never
#Will
There was once a time when I was the hip necklace wearing guy.
- Michael Chiesa
#Guy
#Necklace
#Once
#Time
#Wearing
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
#Better
#Fight
#Fun
#Vision
#Work
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
#He
#Inside
#Never
#Professional
#Step
I at least have to cut my hair. I can't do the whole man bun, funky long hair thing anymore.
- Michael Chiesa
#Funky
#Hair
#Long Hair
#Long
#Man
Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.
- Michael Chiesa
#Losing
#Perseverance
#Rising
#Winning
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