Georges St-Pierre Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
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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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I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
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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.
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If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?
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People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.
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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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Sometimes I'm under the impression some of the fights happen that they shouldn't happen because a guy's cheating. Also, I think when something like this happen they should have not only a suspension but also monetary wise enforce a penalty. Maybe take the purse of the fighter to the other fighter.
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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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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.
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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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I've started late, I was 19 years old. I've trained with Victor Zilberman - he's a Russian-Jewish from Moldova. His son David who is coaching me represented Canada in the Olympic games. There were a lot of very good wrestlers there and they took me underneath their wing when I was young.
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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.'
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When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.