Top 45 Michael Chandler Quotes

Nothing has really made me upset aside from the baseless, false accusations of PED use.

I’ve been blessed so much in my own life and I want to spread that blessing to others who need it.

For me, I want to make sure every single day I wake up and give thanks for everything that I’ve been given in life.

For as long as I can remember, our family has been huge Cardinals fans. My grandpa is a personal friend of Whitey Herzog’s; they were neighbors for decades. Our love and support of the Cardinals definitely runs deep.

I don’t want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.

It is not that hard to go out there and put on the performance of your life and beat any guy in the lightweight division on any given night.

My goal is to win and to finish fights quickly.

When you’re wrestling, it’s such an amazing sport. I love it. I loved that I came from that background.

At first I thought, beer’s nasty. Then I found IPAs. They’re delicious.

Obviously, as a young, young, hungry fighter, I’d like to be fighting three or four times a year.

I really have a heart for children who suffer from cancer. I can’t imagine having to go through that at such a young age.

Brandon Girtz is a tough man who can really throw the leather, but I’m on a different level.

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on each foot or where I need to put my hands are things I’m very good at. Obviously with the wrestling background those are things that come naturally.

I’m a force to be reckoned with.

I’ve had a phenomenal life. I have a phenomenal God that I serve. I have a phenomenal wife.

I never focus on my opponent – I focus more on myself: knowing what my strengths are, where I can take the fight, how I can win the fight, and the intensity that I’m going to bring to a fight.

Obviously, beating Alvarez was the first step to getting my name out there. Now people now know who I am and see, at least in some part, that I’m the real deal.

If I had the opportunity to fight Khabib, or anyone ranked No. 1 – I’ve played that in my head a million times.

My body is durable, my body is able to withstand a lot of practices, a lot of punishment.

I pretty much just train… and go to church on Sundays.

There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.

I’ve had the belt and it’s great. But at the end of the day it’s just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That’s what I do.

I train my butt off every single day.

America was built on hard work and not complaining about stupid junk.

Finishing a guy like Benson Henderson, who hasn’t been finished since for six years, the guy doesn’t get finished and I finished it with a switch-step switch to Southpaw, knocked him out with my left hand.

Some guys, when they enjoy some success in this sport, they get complacent. Not me. It makes me work and train that much harder, helps to bring out the warrior in me.

No matter where I’ve been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I’m from and where I grew up.

When people talk about the lightweight division they will probably mention my name a little bit. Whether they believe I don’t deserve to be up there or I do, they are at least going to mention me.

I’m going to stash up my cash and invest in real estate. I want to be set up for the end of fighting.

I had so much growing up and I’m so thankful for all the people who invested in my life.

Growing up as a wrestler, especially in practice, I think you get used to competing without much of a crowd around.

When I first started fighting, it was just me. But things changed when I married, knowing that I had another person counting on me.

I’m not who I am without the organization of Bellator.

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.

I was never an upper body wrestler. I am a shooter.

I’m always training to be quite honest, but there are those moments when you’re a little more out of shape than you should be.

It’s damage to a nerve. It pretty much shut down the whole lower part of my left leg. I wasn’t able to step anymore. It’s called foot drop – basically, you can’t lift your foot.

On my way to winning the title, it was great for me, but once I won the title, it was tough for me to get fights.

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.

Benson is a champion. I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t scared to death inside this cage, stepping into the cage with that monster.

I look after two people – my wife and my son.

I’m trying to be the best lightweight fighter in the world. That’s my main objective. I just have to keep my head up, keep training and enjoy this awesome ride that I’m on.

Everyone who has kids that you talk to tells you, ‘Wait until you have kids. It’s going to change you.’ You’re like, ‘Nah, come on. How can it change you that much?’ But it changes you so much.

Life is too short and too sweet to complain about the silly things.