Georges St-Pierre Quotes

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

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• When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Training
  • Opponents
  • Cater

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Retire

• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess
  • Clock
  • Opponents

• I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Good
  • Doe
  • Bold

• The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Future
  • Worse
  • Opponents

• It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Fashion
  • Disrespectful
  • Stardom

• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • May
  • Fundamentals
  • Opponents

• After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

  

  George Foreman
  • Littles
  • Opponents
  • Companion

• We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Prison
  • Opponents

• A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Book
  • Opponents
  • Imparts

• When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Fear
  • Countries

• Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Fear
  • Progress
  • Opponents

• The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Reaction
  • Opponents
  • Energetic

• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Military War
  • Opponents
  • Psychological exhaustion

• Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Goal

• The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Opponents
  • Regime
  • Lackeys

• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Wonder
  • Changes
  • Possibilities

• With a 12-game regular-season in effect, we want to play seven home games each year. You would rather play opponents within the state that people are familiar with and can identify with than play a school with no name recognition. Financially, it's a win-win situation for everyone in the state.

  

  Eric Hyman
  • School
  • Games
  • Recognition

• It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Own

• I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Kind
  • Workers

• Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Business
  • Culture

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

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Opponents
  • Disrespectful