Michael Chiesa Quotes

We fight smart, fight intelligent, pick our shots, be very smart about how we place our feet. That's how we win.

I love the preparation before a fight. I love to research, and the process of finding little-known information to use when I'm calling a fight is incredible for me.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

Every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves.

That's the thing about the fight business is that you don't know what's going to happen.

Fights are all about styles and matchups.

I don't fight safe; I fight smart.

One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.

To me, fighting is special because that's what I enjoy to do. Every fight is a memory to me.

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

It's often my opponent's plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don't hear the final bell.

I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.

It's the fight game. I'm ready for everything.

I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

I did my part. I signed it for UFC 205 in New York. I signed my part, and Julianna turned it down. She didn't want to fight that time, but I don't care about this because I am a fighter, and if she don't want fight, we was looking for another opponent to make fight.

I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.