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One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is Fall down 7 times, stand up 8.

Georges St-Pierre

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Georges St-Pierre
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: May 19
Actor
Amateur Wrestler
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Practitioner
Film Actor
Karateka
Mixed Martial Artist
Thai Boxer
GSP
Proverbs
Mma
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Fall

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Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
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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.'
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I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.
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Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.
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Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.
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Respect your opponent, just make them respect you more.
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One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
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A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.
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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.
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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.
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Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.
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With training and self discipline clear focus and confidence problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains
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Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.
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In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.
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I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
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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.
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I'm not impressed by your performance.
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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.
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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.
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