Georges St-Pierre Quotes
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Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.
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This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.
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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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When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.
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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.
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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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Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.
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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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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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People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire.
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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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In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
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One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
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It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.
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You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
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With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
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No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.