Top 90 Georges St-Pierre Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.”

— Georges St-Pierre

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “You think I was born rich? I’ve worked really hard. You have no idea.”

— Georges St-Pierre

57. “You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.”

— Georges St-Pierre

58. “I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist ’cause of him.”

— Georges St-Pierre

59. “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

60. “Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.”

— Georges St-Pierre

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

— Georges St-Pierre

62. “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

63. “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.”

— Georges St-Pierre

64. “A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.”

— Georges St-Pierre

65. “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

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

— Georges St-Pierre

67. “I’m the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.”

— Georges St-Pierre

68. “I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I’m just walking through the aisles.”

— Georges St-Pierre

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

— Georges St-Pierre

70. “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

71. “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

72. “I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.”

— Georges St-Pierre

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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.”

— Georges St-Pierre

76. “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

77. “I’ve come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.”

— Georges St-Pierre

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Georges St-Pierre

83. “Once fear enters your life – it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.”

— Georges St-Pierre

84. “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.”

— Georges St-Pierre

85. “Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.”

— Georges St-Pierre

86. “One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.”

— Georges St-Pierre

87. “One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.”

— Georges St-Pierre

88. “It’s bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.”

— Georges St-Pierre

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

— Georges St-Pierre

90. “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

91. “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

92. “This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.”

— Georges St-Pierre

93. “The key to Georges was to reach a point when there was no such thing as a glass half empty or half full. The glass is at half capacity, and that means something.”

— Georges St-Pierre