Chris Weidman Quotes

With any success, there will always be a little bit of a negative.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

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

I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.

Sometimes you get looked at harder than other people. I can take the criticism and I can take the heat.

At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

If there's a spotlight on you, people are going to look for a reason to bring you down.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.

You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.

Prosperity often presages adversity.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just - there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just - it is a Cinderella story to me.