Michael Chiesa Quotes

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

I believe in my power and boxing skills.

I've got my dreams. I want to be the best fighter on the planet.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough.

When I said I wanted to run a marathon, I wanted to do it under four hours. But when I started training, I was like, 'Oh I got this,' so I wanted to run between 3:30 and 3:35. I'm really proud of myself.

I don't know if people consider me a deep threat, but maybe I'll get there one day.

I'm a competitor in anything I do, especially boxing.

I didn't know if I would be good enough to play for an American college team. But I wanted to try.

So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.

I'm going to show everyone my real potential and I know I have the potential to be the best in the world.

I know - without sounding arrogant - that I could've played at Real Madrid... but I didn't work hard enough for that.