Chris Weidman Quotes

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.

Just pushing myself for more rounds at a higher pace in training. Your focus should be grounded in what you do, and that's fighting. I'm getting my cardio that way.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

Every day before the game, I know what I want to do. The days I feel off, it's knowing what it is I want to do and getting it back.

I think I have become mentally stronger now, and I have full confidence that I can finish close matches.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

I worry about myself in the ring; I worry about what I can do and how I can dictate a fight.

I just try to be the best fighter I can be.

Once I go into these fights, and we have to go through the ringer to prepare for them, and we know I'm not 100 percent going in, winning is the most important thing, and dominating is the most important thing, and that's what we've been doing.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.