Top 171 Quotes & Sayings by Georges St-Pierre

When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.

If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.

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.

I'm not the kind of guy that really buys clothing. I'm lucky. Most of the time, if I want something, I can get it from my sponsors.

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.

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

Even though you're the best, it doesn't mean you're not going to lose. And it doesn't mean nobody's going to beat you.

I like hip-hop music.

I do not believe Michael Bisping is a good trash talker.

I was at an ESPN event in the United States, the awards ceremony, and I got approached by the WWE. I had just retired, and, it's a form of competition, but of course, it's also scripted, so I don't know if I'd be willing to relive that. Perhaps for a special event, so I could taste it.

It takes a lot of discipline to become and stay champion. It also takes a lot of discipline to stop while still feeling that you're in the best physical and mental shape of your life, but I've always planned to leave the sport when I'm at the top and in good health.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

When you're champion, you feel you're the center of the world.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

The moment I'm most proud of my career is when I got dropped by the headkick by Carlos Condit. I fell down and I was able to stand up.

I'm at my best when I'm nervous, scared. I feel like I'm on the edge, that's when I perform better.

I still eat my ice cream if I want to. I like dessert, of course.

I would say Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel are very attractive. I think I would put Jessica Biel as No. 1. She's very beautiful.

I'm not boring. I used to be the guy that sells the most pay-per-view before Conor McGregor, so I don't think I'm boring. If I would be boring people would not buy my pay-per-view.

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

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.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

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.

I'm pretty bad at video games.

My strategy is simple. I fight at what I'm good at. I am not good at trash talking, so I don't fight with trash talking. It is not my thing.

In combat sports, you should retire on top. That is very hard to do. I'm glad I had the discipline to do it.

I don't depend on fighting or the UFC to live my life.

I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train every day if I'm not hurt.

There's only one Anderson Silva. I think he's a specialist and a generalist.

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a good fighter.

A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore. They're fighting to not lose. I've seen it many times. It's very hard for me to finish a guy like this. He doesn't want to get hurt. It's normal. It's human nature.

If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

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.

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.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

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.

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.

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

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

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.

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

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.

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.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.