Georges St-Pierre
Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.Collection: Fall
It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.Collection: Strong
This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.Collection: Mma
I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.Collection: Mistake
One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.Collection: Teacher
I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.Collection: Humility
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.Collection: Keys
One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".Collection: Fall
Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.Collection: Opponents
Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Survival
A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.Collection: Fighting
You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.Collection: Winning
In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.Collection: Life
Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Mma
It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.Collection: Butterfly
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.Collection: Realizing
Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.Collection: Art
It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.Collection: Fighting
I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Mma
It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.Collection: Powerful
I'm not impressed by your performance.Collection: Performances
Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.Collection: Games
Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.Collection: Moments
You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.Collection: Loss
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.Collection: Mma
I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.Collection: Mistake
Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.Collection: Ufc
Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.Collection: Dream
Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.Collection: Mma
Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.Collection: Journey
Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Sports
My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.Collection: Art
A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.Collection: Guy
A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Girlfriend
Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.Collection: Smart
I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: War
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.Collection: Mma
Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.Collection: Fighting
I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Regret