Chris Weidman Quotes

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Wrestling is my life, and if I'm not training or in the gym, then I'm watching videos to learn more about it.

I used to travel for 12 hours to learn to wrestle when I was 15.

Since I was 9 years old, I've been training to be a champion.

Wrestling is my first love.

Wrestling is in my blood.

My wife asks me daily to leave wrestling, but I will not leave my favourite sport. I will train others.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I wrestled in high school, so I actually have a bit of a base in grappling.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.

I train year-round.

I started training when I was 15.

Wrestling is my life.

My father is a trainer. From childhood, I would watch him train and kick and punch.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.

I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

Sports is my passion.