Georges St-Pierre Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.

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

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

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.

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.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

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

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

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

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

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