Top 100 Georges St-Pierre Quotes
#1. It's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
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#2. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
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#3. When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.
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#4. Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.
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#5. Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.
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#6. It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.
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#7. Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
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#8. The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.
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#13. No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.
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#14. I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.
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#15. It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.
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#16. 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.
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#17. It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.
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#18. Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.
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#19. If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.
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#20. I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
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#21. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
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#31. 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.
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#32. Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
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#33. Nothing really frustrates
me to the point of hatred.
It's not the worth the energy.
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#34. Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of ... to invest in myself.
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#35. I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.
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#36. 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.
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#37. You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.
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#38. Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.
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#39. My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
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#40. Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
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#41. Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.
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#42. One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
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#43. You always recognize great champions ... how they come back from a loss.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#46. I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.
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#47. Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
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#48. The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
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#49. Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
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#50. 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.
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#51. This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#55. It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better.
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#56. 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
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#57. Innovation is a discipline not a lottery ... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.
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#58. 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.
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#59. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
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#60. 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.
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#61. With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.
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#67. When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
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#69. 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
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#70. Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.
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#71. I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.
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#72. If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
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#74. People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything ... all begins with attitude.
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#75. Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.
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#76. I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
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#77. I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.
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#78. Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.
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#80. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
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#81. 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.
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#82. The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.
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#83. What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
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#84. A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
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#85. Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.
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#86. Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life ... When you stop moving, you're done.
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#87. Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
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#90. Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.
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#94. Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source ... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.
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#95. You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
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#96. A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another ... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
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#97. I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.
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#98. I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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.
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