Michael Chiesa Quotes

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.