Georges St-Pierre famous quotes

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Fighting #Mma #Champion

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Kids #Thinking #Winner

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Giving Up #Guy #Champion

One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mean #Past #Keys

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Guy #Advantage

Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Real #Fighting #Mma

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Simple #Opposites #Long

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Fighting #Artist #Differences

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Giving #Students

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Fall #Mma #Falling Down

The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Keys #Focus #Done

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Joy #Sorrow

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Goal #Failing #Danger

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Years #Mma #Progress

Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#War #Army #Fighting

I am very honored and excited to be part of UFC 100; it's going to be the hardest challenge of my career so far and it's going to be pretty tough - I can't wait.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Ufc #Careers #Waiting

You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Workout #Tired #Games

When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Girlfriend #Past #Hard Times

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Ufc #Littles

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Goal #Perfection

Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Imagination #Goal

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Humility #Fighting #Acceptance

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Believe #Going Away #Trying

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Art #Fighting #Army

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Different #Tasks

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Real #Mma #Mind

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Mma #Childhood #Feelings

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Fighting #Mma #Scary

I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train every day if I'm not hurt.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Hurt #Fighting #Artist

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#People #Trying #Want

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#Growing Up #Artist #Fans

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
-- Georges St-Pierre

#People #Personality #Important