Georges St-Pierre Trying Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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.