Top 100 St Pierre Quotes
#1. I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.
Joseph Monninger
#2. I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.
Ronda Rousey
#3. Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#4. I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they've maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.
Randy Couture
#5. Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.
Charlotte Bronte
#6. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#7. [W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#9. It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better.
Georges St-Pierre
#10. When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
Allen St. Pierre
#11. 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
Georges St-Pierre
#12. Innovation is a discipline not a lottery ... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.
Georges St-Pierre
#13. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#14. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Georges St-Pierre
#15. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#16. With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
Georges St-Pierre
#17. You always recognize great champions ... how they come back from a loss.
Georges St-Pierre
#18. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#19. This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.
Georges St-Pierre
#20. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#21. Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
Georges St-Pierre
#22. The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
Georges St-Pierre
#23. Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
Georges St-Pierre
#25. 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
#26. It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize marijuana no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.
Allen St. Pierre
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
Georges St-Pierre
#30. I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.
Georges St-Pierre
#31. The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.
Georges St-Pierre
#32. 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
#33. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
Georges St-Pierre
#35. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#36. I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.
Georges St-Pierre
#37. I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
Georges St-Pierre
#38. Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.
Georges St-Pierre
#39. People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything ... all begins with attitude.
Georges St-Pierre
#41. If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
Georges St-Pierre
#42. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
Georges St-Pierre
#43. Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.
Georges St-Pierre
#44. We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#45. 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
#47. When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
Georges St-Pierre
#49. There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.
Georges St-Pierre
#50. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).
Georges St-Pierre
#54. It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.
Georges St-Pierre
#55. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#56. It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.
Georges St-Pierre
#57. Remember...you are safe...you are surrounded by love...and you are never alone.
Joellyn St. Pierre
#58. 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
#60. No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.
Georges St-Pierre
#61. I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.
Georges St-Pierre
#62. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#63. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#64. 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
#65. Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.
Georges St-Pierre
#66. Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
Georges St-Pierre
#67. It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.
Georges St-Pierre
#68. Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#69. Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.
Georges St-Pierre
#70. Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.
Georges St-Pierre
#72. When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.
Georges St-Pierre
#73. The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Abbe Pierre
#74. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
Georges St-Pierre
#75. It's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
Georges St-Pierre
#76. We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#77. With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
Georges St-Pierre
#78. Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.
Georges St-Pierre
#79. Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
Georges St-Pierre
#80. My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
Georges St-Pierre
#81. Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.
Georges St-Pierre
#82. You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.
Georges St-Pierre
#83. 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
#84. I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.
Georges St-Pierre
#85. Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of ... to invest in myself.
Georges St-Pierre
#86. Nothing really frustrates
me to the point of hatred.
It's not the worth the energy.
Georges St-Pierre
#87. Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
Georges St-Pierre
#88. 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
#89. One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
Georges St-Pierre
#90. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#92. 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
#93. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#94. One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".
Georges St-Pierre
#95. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#96. 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.
Georges St-Pierre
#98. 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
#99. I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
Georges St-Pierre
#100. If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.
Georges St-Pierre
