110+ Georges St-Pierre Quotes On Education, World And Matt Hughes

Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist and former two-time UFC Welterweight Champion. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, having won numerous titles and accolades in the sport. St-Pierre is also a member of the UFC Hall of Fame. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Georges St-Pierre on education, leadership, life.

Top 10 Georges St-Pierre Quotes

1. Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.
2. Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
3. If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.
4. 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.
5. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
6. With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
7. One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".
8. 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.
9. If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.
10. 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.

Georges St-Pierre Short Quotes

• A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.
• It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
• Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself.
• Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
• I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
• Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.
• I'm not impressed by your performance.
• Always pursue your dreams and work hard at it.
• Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.
• When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Georges St-Pierre Quotes About Life

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key. — Georges St-Pierre

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 — Georges St-Pierre

I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it's not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt. — Georges St-Pierre

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.' — Georges St-Pierre

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves. — Georges St-Pierre

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

Georges St-Pierre Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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

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. — Georges St-Pierre

If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself? — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary. — Georges St-Pierre

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared. — Georges St-Pierre

It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient. — Georges St-Pierre

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. — Georges St-Pierre

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose. — Georges St-Pierre

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

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. — Georges St-Pierre

I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else. — Georges St-Pierre

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious. — Georges St-Pierre

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me. — Georges St-Pierre

Set your goal and keep moving forward. — Georges St-Pierre

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible. — Georges St-Pierre

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

I'm so busy during my everyday, when I go on vacation I need to pull the plug like they say, and to do nothing. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose. — Georges St-Pierre

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles. — Georges St-Pierre

To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class. — Georges St-Pierre

I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no matter how people tell me how great I am, I'm always one mistake away from losing everything. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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

I've started late, I was 19 years old. I've trained with Victor Zilberman - he's a Russian-Jewish from Moldova. His son David who is coaching me represented Canada in the Olympic games. There were a lot of very good wrestlers there and they took me underneath their wing when I was young. — Georges St-Pierre

I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal. — Georges St-Pierre

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain. — Georges St-Pierre

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic. — Georges St-Pierre

People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

If you want to be a proud person, then you want to avenge your loss. For me it was [Josean] Serra and [Joe] Hughes, and for Michael Bisping, Henderson is one of his losses - one of his most painful losses. So I understand why he wants to avenge it. As an athlete I understand. — Georges St-Pierre

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

People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire. — Georges St-Pierre

People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old. — Georges St-Pierre

Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn. — Georges St-Pierre

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams. — Georges St-Pierre

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

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. — Georges St-Pierre

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler. — Georges St-Pierre

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon. — Georges St-Pierre

Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts. — Georges St-Pierre

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it. — Georges St-Pierre

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental. — Georges St-Pierre

For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys - then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they're heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt. — Georges St-Pierre

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. — Georges St-Pierre

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test. — Georges St-Pierre

It's not always the best team that wins the game it's the team that plays better. — Georges St-Pierre

Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns. — Georges St-Pierre

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight. — Georges St-Pierre

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing. — Georges St-Pierre

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real. — Georges St-Pierre

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement. — Georges St-Pierre

A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready. — Georges St-Pierre

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

The only way forward in life is innovation. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

I went to Jerusalem, the dead sea, it was just amazing. Because what we see in the TV, I'm sorry to say it, I don't want to insult nobody, but a lot of the image that we see from the middle east in Canada - It's sad to say but it's always bad stuff. I was thinking coming here it would be a lot of military, security, everybody would be a little more on the edge, but I see it's amazing. It feels a little bit similar to Miami. — Georges St-Pierre

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. — Georges St-Pierre

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

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. — Georges St-Pierre

People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport. — Georges St-Pierre

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in. — 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. — Georges St-Pierre

Life Lessons by Georges St-Pierre

1. Georges St-Pierre has demonstrated the importance of hard work and dedication to achieving success. He has shown that with a strong work ethic, anything is possible.
2. St-Pierre has also demonstrated the importance of setting goals and staying focused on them. He has achieved success by setting realistic goals and working hard to achieve them.
3. Finally, St-Pierre has demonstrated the importance of having a strong support system. He has credited his success to the support of his family, friends, and coaches.