A biography for Chris Weidmanhasn’t been written yet.
“The first thing I do when I book a fight is I go to the Internet and I print out a picture of the guy and put it on my refrigerator.”
“Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, some good old-fashioned wrestling and plenty of cardio. You name it, it's part of my routine.”
“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.”
“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'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.”
“It's just an honor to be part of an apparel brand like Reebok.”
“You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.”
“When I started and first got to the MMA gym the guys would start and say, 'You're like the All-American kid.' It was because, I don't know, I go to church every Sunday, I got married young and I've always been an All-American in college having gone All-American all four years.”
“I didn't think I was much of a public speaker.”
“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 grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.”
“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 have a Gracie background and a Matt Serra background so I've always used jiu-jitsu but it takes a while to reach black belt level.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I never even imagined having my own shoe.”
“It's a very tough sport. It's a fickle sport. The fans are definitely tough. But it's also kind of motivating.”
“Winning the middleweight title was an amazing feeling.”