Michael Chiesa Quotes

MMA is my love.

I love this sport. I love the fights and I love most of the guys in it.

But I got into MMA for the sport. I love fighting.

I've always loved to fight. I love what I do, and that is why I've been doing it for so long. I really enjoy fighting and competing at a high level. I love getting in there and getting after it.

Wrestling is my first love.

Jiu-jitsu is something I absolutely love.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge.

I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.

Soccer is my life.

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

Our sport has great fighters and great fans. And the fans really get to connect to those fighters.

I live, breathe and eat football.

I love football, adore it.

We all know a lot about something. We all have a passion about something.

For me, football is what I love to do most. It is also the thing I'm better doing than anything else.

Everybody who is fighting at UFC 200 is awesome! It's going to be awesome to get to meet everybody. I'm excited.

I do a lot of fights in the U.K., and the fans there, I have to admit probably, are the best in the world because they support their fighters.

The sport wouldn't be what it is without the fans, and at UFC 189, watching the Irish fans screaming 'Ole Ole Ole' was pretty amazing.

It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training, and everything that happens on the pitch.