A biography for Chris Weidmanhasn’t been written yet.
“There's only so much you can control when you're fighting, so the things you can control - like your fight song - are pretty important. So you want to pick that wisely.”
“When I'm getting ready for a fight - when I'm in that locker room or I'm making that walk and I finally get to the Octagon - it's all spiritual.”
“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.”
“I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.”
“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.”
“I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.”
“I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.”
“I like to compete. So, any time I get to go live - which means go all out - that's what I like to do.”
“You don't wanna peak too early in training camp, but you don't wanna be out of shape or not to the point where you're able to peak. It's a science to be able to find the happy medium where your body and mind are at their best.”
“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.”
“Keeping my focus on what's important - inside the Octagon and out - is never lost on me.”
“I want to beat people who people think I can't beat.”
“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 think wrestling is the one of the greatest sports there are.”
“To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.”
“Being the guy that ended the run of the greatest fighter ever will always be attached to my name.”
“As I got older, I lived right next next to the Long Island Railroad, so in junior high and high school I'd just jump on the train with friends and head to the city. We'd run away from the conductors, hide from them in the bathroom. It was just what you did.”
“I'll never be outworked.”
“When you get hurt it's hard to judge when it's the right time to pull out of a fight.”
“A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.”