If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good. Georges St-Pierre More Quotes by Georges St-Pierre More Quotes From Georges St-Pierre 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. Georges St-Pierre tired workout games 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 Georges St-Pierre failing goal danger 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. Georges St-Pierre differences real exercise With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be. Georges St-Pierre discipline belief 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 mma kids thinking 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 differences fighting artist 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 genesis mma good-things Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn. Georges St-Pierre mma loses people 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 progress get-better creativity Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done. Georges St-Pierre mma done moving People who believe in themselves can accomplish almost anything... all begins with attitude. Georges St-Pierre mma attitude believe It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them. Georges St-Pierre mma body believe What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon. Georges St-Pierre mma embrace weapons Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test. Georges St-Pierre mma champion fighting I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me. Georges St-Pierre army fighting art 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 mma stronger thinking 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. Georges St-Pierre almost-perfect perfection wrestling Respect is the most important thing. Be respectful toward others and have respect for yourself. Georges St-Pierre respect-yourself respectful important 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 simple opposites long Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident. Georges St-Pierre mma fighting real
