Georges st-pierre quotes

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.

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

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.

I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

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

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Dana White came out very often in public saying I'm this and that; I'm sure it's also to play with my ego, to make me, for example, come out of retirement and say 'Oh ok, I'll fight for peanuts.' No, I'm not like that. I know the game.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

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.

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is impossible but every day you get closer and that's what I want . Every day I want to get better than I was the day before. I want to use every second of my life, every time I have in my life to make me a better fighter. It's more than a job it's a way of living.

The only way forward in life is innovation.

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

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

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.

Because Conor McGregor is so confident - he goes there 'I'll beat this, I will do that' - If I would be his coach I will tell him all the time, behind closed doors, how dangerous [Nate] Diaz is and how much of a war this fight will be and how painful, and long, and uncomfortable it would be, and to get prepared for the worst day of his life.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

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.

I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.

Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

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.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

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.

I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no matter how people tell me how great I am, I'm always one mistake away from losing everything.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

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.

It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

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

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

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.

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.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your brain, to play with your mind. I'm not scared of nobody. I'm not scared of no human being. I'm scared to fight, every time I fight I'm scared, but I'll bite into my mouthpiece and I'll walk the walk.

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.

My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.

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.

If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.

Nothing really frustrates me to the point of hatred. It's not the worth the energy.

I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.

Set your goal and keep moving forward.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.

I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.

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.

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

The beach in Tel-Aviv I went to, it even looks and feels a little bit like Rio de Janeiro. Some other places are very European and I just like it. I thought it would be fun but it's a lot better than that. It's a lot more relaxed and a lot of fun, and I feel very secure, and I would tell my friends they should come here when they plan a vacation. Not only the history.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

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.

Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

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.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

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

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.

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

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal.

It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it's not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

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.

Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.

When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

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.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

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

I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.

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

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

I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.

I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

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.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

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.