Georges St-Pierre Quotes
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Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.
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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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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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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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I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.
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With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
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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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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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I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.
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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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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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Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
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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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I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
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I'm not impressed by your performance.
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It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
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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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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.
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Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
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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