Georges St-Pierre
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Fear
In combat sports, you should retire on top. That is very hard to do. I'm glad I had the discipline to do it.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Time
When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.
I'm pretty bad at video games.
I still eat my ice cream if I want to. I like dessert, of course.
If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.
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.
I like hip-hop music.
I don't depend on fighting or the UFC to live my life.
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 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 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.
I'm not a good talker, I'm a good fighter.
When you're champion, you feel you're the center of the world.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 do not believe Michael Bisping is a good trash talker.
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.
There's only one Anderson Silva. I think he's a specialist and a generalist.
There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 itCollection: Goal
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.Collection: Workout
When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Real
Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.Collection: Mma
With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.Collection: Discipline
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.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Fighting
Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.Collection: Moving
What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Kids
It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.Collection: Believe
People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Creativity
Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Wrestling
I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.Collection: Art