Chris Weidman Quotes

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything's just quiet.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.

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.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

When I face an opponent in the cage, it doesn't really matter who they are. Whether they're my buddy, like Scott Jorgensen, or someone I don't like, like Dominick Cruz, I'm going in there and realizing this guy is trying to hurt me, and that's what I'm going to do to him. I try to keep it real basic.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.

We can't get in the cage thinking that we'll win quickly, that we'll get the knockout.

I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That's when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself.

The more fights I have the more relaxed I get in cage or ring. It's all about experience. It's something that I try to do because I fight better when I am relaxed.

As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.

I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the routine, and I accept it. It means I'm there and I'm ready.

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.

In the build-up to a fight, I am scared, and I do worry about myself. But once I step into that arena, that worry has gone. A switch gets flicked, and I want to do damage. All I care about is doing damage as fast as possible.

My coach used to tell me I've got pretty heavy hands, so I try to use them at the start of the fight because it's a good time to use my power because I'm 100% in the moment.

I get extremely detail-oriented. In my most stressed-out days, I get way more focused on those details than anyone should be.

When I'm on court, I just worry about my half. Whatever is on the other half, I just don't care.

When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking about fighting. I'm doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper's a little bit shorter, I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of things.

I've tried to play within myself but I need adrenaline and need to be pumped up to play well otherwise you will see snoring snooker like that.

Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.

I clear my mind; I don't think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.