Quotes from Michael Chandler

Letting emotion get into it isn't part of my game. Letting animosity or a rivalry come into it, that's all for the show.

If fighting ever got in the way of my marriage, you'd see me sacrifice my career.

I talk to my god every day and he's completely fine with me beating the hell out of people.

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be as a father, as a human being that matters to me.

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

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

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.

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.

I just try to keep the main thing the main thing: getting my butt in the gym.

I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.

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

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.

Bellator wouldn't be who they are without my performances and Michael Chandler wouldn't be who he is without Bellator promoting him and us having a phenomenal symbiotic relationship.

Henri Hooft has made my hands and feet deadly weapons.

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.

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

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

Sure, fear can protect us from danger—but most of the time it just keeps us from life's great adventures.

If I could do this until I was 60, I would. This is a great life. All I do is train, all I do is work out, and prolong my life by the training that I'm doing, the things I have to do as professional athlete.

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.

There are always a couple of ways you envision fights going; you always envision a win and a great finish.

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.

My goal is to win and to finish fights quickly.

The people who know me, the fans who've watched my fights, they know what I'm about. They know that I'm going to give 100 percent of everything I have each and every time I get into the octagon.