Top 55 Chris Weidman Quotes

We bought a dog, and we financed it – a $1,400 dog. We had no money, so me and my wife had to put our names together with our credit just to finance a dog.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

My training varies so much. There’s no such thing as a typical day.

The thing about mixed martial arts is you have to know every single martial art in the world or you’re at a disadvantage. So, there’s so much to learn. I have to know wrestling. I have to know kick boxing. I have to know boxing. I have to know karate.

I love ‘Jacare.’ I’m a fan of ‘Jacare.’

I never even imagined having my own shoe.

We have a lot of great stars and so many different things, some of the other countries don’t have that. So when they get somebody, they support them to the death. America, I kind of think we take it for granted sometimes.

Any time you’re banged up, your body hurts, you don’t really feel like going to the gym. That’s when I feel like you really have to push through it. That’s when you really make the leaps and bounds in your game. So, pushing through those days is never easy, but that’s what gets you good.

I want a rematch with Mousasi more than anything.

I grew up in a rough neighborhood, so I fought a lot. Even when I was wrestling, if I lost a match, I always thought, That guy would never beat me in a fight.

There’s bad apples in every type of job, whether it’s sports or normal day-to-day jobs.

It’s been a dream of mine to fight at MSG.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn’t train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

I struggle just like everybody else struggles. It’s always a struggle in life to overcome temptation. I just try and get through it. No one is perfect.

I try to have the same mindset in my practices as I would for my fights.

People forget, I was 9-0, I was fighting Anderson Silva. I was fighting the best guys this sport has ever seen, one after the other, with no experience.

Training is my life. It’s all I’ve known since I was in second grade, when I started wrestling.

I was living out on Long Island in Baldwin, New York when Hurricane Sandy hit. With the storm surge, the whole first floor of our house was under about three feet of water. We lost a lot of valuable stuff – sentimental stuff like pictures and Christmas ornaments. Nobody expected flooding that bad.

My brother was probably one of the toughest kids from my neighborhood and he didn’t make it easy on me. He made sure I was getting beat up as much as possible growing up. If he wasn’t beating me up, he was making his friends beat me up.

I think the best guys in the world should fight.

When I’ve trained as hard as I possibly can through training camp and I come to the end, where my body is worn out and I’m tired, I know I’m ready to peak.

I think wrestling is the one of the greatest sports there are.

I hit adversity when I was at the top of the world. Most people hit adversity when they’re just at the beginning, when they’re just getting started. I hit it when everybody was watching, and everybody had comments and everybody was doubting me. It was a tough situation to be in.

I grew up taking the Long Island Railroad from Baldwin, New York into Penn Station and walking upstairs to Madison Square Garden. Those are some of my favorite memories.

Rankings don’t mean much to me but I’m working towards being the pound-for-pound best in everyone’s mind.

There’s always going to be people talking so you just have to focus everyday and be the best fighter you can be in the Octagon on the day of the fight.

I feel like anyone at middleweight, when I have a full training camp, I’m going to go out there and finish them. That’s my mentality.

My ultimate goal was always that I want to be known as one of the greatest of all time. The first step was obviously to be UFC champion.

I’m going to win the belt at middleweight and I’m going to go up to 205 and win the belt there after I dominate the middleweight division for a little bit – that will happen.

I think there’s times where I’m introverted, and there’s times where I’m extroverted.

A lot of these players, if you listen to the Islanders or the Rangers, they get interviewed in the locker room right after the game, it’s very structured answers. They’re very protected.

I’ve been through so much damn adversity, I’ve had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.

I put a lot of pressure on myself.

It’s a very tough sport. It’s a fickle sport. The fans are definitely tough. But it’s also kind of motivating.

Being the guy that ended the run of the greatest fighter ever will always be attached to my name.

I wanna get myself in such good shape that no matter how much I push myself in a fight, I know that the other guy is gonna be a little bit more tired.

If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.

I expect the worst of every situation, so if it does happen I’m prepared for it.

When you get hurt it’s hard to judge when it’s the right time to pull out of a fight.

You don’t want to fix things that aren’t broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

Money, autographs, I had no desire to even do that. I fell in love with fighting and those types of things became attached to it.

I didn’t think I was much of a public speaker.

When you’re so physically and emotionally invested in something – like you have to be in MMA – there’s nothing like having your friends and family there to support you on fight night.

When I’m spiritually in the right place, there’s no stopping me.

I’ve beaten Anderson twice, then Lyoto Machida and now Belfort. I’ll be proud to have taken down three all-time legends in a row.

People gotta realize as a fighter you want to become a champion because you get paid way more money. So the belt is very intriguing for that reason.

I’ve never had anything. I just wanted to one day live comfortable. Like, be able to go out to lunch with my friends without being like, crap, I don’t know if I can afford this bill right now. I shouldn’t be doing this. That’s all I really wanted.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

There’s times where you get the loud, crazy comments from me, and there’s times where I say basic things, and stay quiet because I don’t want to cause any drama. Sometimes I’m in the mood where I’m just going to tell it how it is, and have fun. And whoever doesn’t like it, OK.

I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.

I’ll never underestimate ‘GSP.’

Winning the middleweight title was an amazing feeling.

To walk around and people ask me who the champion is in my weight class and I have to say Michael Bisping, it’s a little embarrassing, but that’s just the way it goes.

Look at the guys I’ve fought. Anderson Silva. Lyoto Machida. Vitor Belfort. All those guys are much quicker than Luke Rockhold and I did just fine.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.