Michael Chiesa Quotes

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

When I started fighting I've always thought about being a UFC champion.

For me, I've been a part of a super-team in Team Alpha Male for so much of my career.

I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.

I had Jake Ellenberger. I trained very hard for him; then I was able to get Carlos Condit, an excellent fighter. That's what it's all about.

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

That first loss in the UFC was a tough one. I hadn't fought in a year, and you start again, different organisation, different scenario, and it all plays into it.

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

As the fighter, you're the one getting in the ring, you're the one risking injuries, you're the one risking your life - not only on the day of the fight, but in training camp. You're getting punched, you're training, you're sparring. You have to make sure that it's worth the risk - the compensation, the terms, the fights that you want.

Dominick Cruz is a great opponent, he has an amazing style.

I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.

I feel like a lot of my fans hold high expectations of me when it comes to inside the Octagon - not so much outside of the Octagon - but I feel like most of my performances are pretty dominant, so I don't feel like I have the luxury to not perform in an extremely impressive fashion.

I'm always watching every featherweight that fights in the UFC because we can eventually fight in the future.

Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.

Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.

If you go into 'The Ultimate Fighter' and you're just gonna go in there to get just one fight and win... the premise is to win the whole thing. When I went in, I wanted to win the thing or be cut.

I treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.

I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.

Jon Jones is amazing; he's so confident. He uses his elbows very well, and I think he's a great talent.

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson