Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Weidman - Page 2

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.

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

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.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

It's just an honor to be part of an apparel brand like Reebok.

I think the best guys in the world should fight.

I want a rematch with Mousasi more than anything.

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.

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.

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

I love 'Jacare.' I'm a fan of 'Jacare.'

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.

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.

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.

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

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

I took my first fight in the UFC on short notice. I took my first big fight against a top-five guy on ten days notice.

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 want to fight the best possible people.

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 want to beat people who people think I can't beat.

When I speak and say I am the best in the world and have the capability to dominate everybody in my weight class, I really believe that.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

I want to have the biggest challenges in front of me and conquer them. That's why I wanted to fight Anderson Silva when nobody else wanted to fight him.

Every single time I defended the belt, it was against the best guy in the world.

To win the belt from Bisping, the hardest problem for me would be to train hard for him because he stinks. I'm just kidding, he's really good... No, I'm lying.

Wrestling background, you never talk trash.

I never even imagined having my own shoe.

I love competing.

To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.

I know I'm the best in the world.

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.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

I've fought all these top Brazilians. They're all supporting their people, Anderson Silva, they're supporting him. Lyoto Machida, they're all supporting him. I didn't have the full support of America. Not everyone American was rooting for me because I'm from America. If they were rooting for me, it's because they were a fan of me.

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

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

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.

I never really ate greens, what I always did do was I always ate peanut butter and honey and I ate it all day. There's not much nutritional value in that. I just love peanut butter and I love honey so I just put them together.

I won't be happy unless I finish Lyoto Machida.

I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match.

Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.

I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.

The only reason I got into MMA was to be the best.

I tried to take every little thing and use it as an advantage. People were asking me how it felt to be in the UFC, and I wasn’t thinking about that. All that mattered was Alessio Sakara. I had to win that fight. Even now I still haven’t got time to sit back. Again, this is a must win, must dominate, fight for me in my eyes, and I won’t be happy unless that’s the way it goes.

The truth comes out... I think when you fight you find out who you are

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

The sky is the limit when you work hard.

I try to keep a positive attitude about everything.

Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

I want to be undefeated for a while and end my career as one of the greatest of all-time.

I only train, I don't know what a break is.