Georges St-Pierre Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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