Top 171 Quotes & Sayings by Georges St-Pierre - Page 2

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

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.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

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.

Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.

People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.

Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is impossible but every day you get closer and that's what I want . Every day I want to get better than I was the day before. I want to use every second of my life, every time I have in my life to make me a better fighter. It's more than a job it's a way of living.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

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

Nothing really frustrates me to the point of hatred. It's not the worth the energy.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.

It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

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.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Because Conor McGregor is so confident - he goes there 'I'll beat this, I will do that' - If I would be his coach I will tell him all the time, behind closed doors, how dangerous [Nate] Diaz is and how much of a war this fight will be and how painful, and long, and uncomfortable it would be, and to get prepared for the worst day of his life.

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.

The only way forward in life is innovation.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.

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.

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.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.