Georges St-Pierre Quotes
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You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
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What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
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Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.
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No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.
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Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.
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As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.
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Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.
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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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Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
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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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For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys - then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they're heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt.
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Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
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Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
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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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Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
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Dana White came out very often in public saying I'm this and that; I'm sure it's also to play with my ego, to make me, for example, come out of retirement and say 'Oh ok, I'll fight for peanuts.' No, I'm not like that. I know the game.
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It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
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I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
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Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
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I went to Jerusalem, the dead sea, it was just amazing. Because what we see in the TV, I'm sorry to say it, I don't want to insult nobody, but a lot of the image that we see from the middle east in Canada - It's sad to say but it's always bad stuff. I was thinking coming here it would be a lot of military, security, everybody would be a little more on the edge, but I see it's amazing. It feels a little bit similar to Miami.
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Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.
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When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.
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One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.