Explore Quotes by Georges St-Pierre

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 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 don't depend on fighting or the UFC to live my life.

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 pretty bad at video games.

When you're champion, you feel you're the center of the world.

I still eat my ice cream if I want to. I like dessert, of course.

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.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

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.

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

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.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

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.

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.

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

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 it

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.

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.