 I think it's really great that you still enjoy martial arts even after you're done fighting. Like you still love to train and improve. Like we're talking about how the fact that you just trained Freddie Roach and before this we were talking about how you're gonna go to Puerto Rico and train with the Donna Hurt death squad. Like you're gonna go down and train with those guys. You're literally gonna go to a fucking island to go do jujitsu, you know. I like the confidence that martial arts give me because I start when I was very young and it saved my life you know because I started when I was bullied in school and it became an habit and if I don't do it I'm not happy and I don't feel confident. I remember when I was a kid I was looking at myself in the mirror and I didn't like myself. I didn't like what I saw in myself because I wanted to change my environment and martial art taught me that if you want to change your environment you want to change yourself you need to love yourself first and I learned how to love myself. I didn't love right away in the beginning who I was but I love who I could become and I wanted to become that person that I visualized the idea George Saint-Pierre that I could become. That's when I start training and that's when I start looking at people in the eyes instead of looking down and when I shake someone's hand I affirm grip and when the teacher was asking a question before I was always like this always the last to answer now I was taking charge hey I know the answer five plus five it's ten for example yeah I exteriorized myself I got out of my comfort zone and it started building up my confidence and you know like in life the bully it's like a predatory anymore it will never hunt the strong alpha male it will go for the weak and it's the same thing so I wish I could tell you I get out of my bullying because I kick all their ass because I've learned karate but that's that's not how it happened it happened because I gained confidence and by gaining confidence I became someone different I became a different person and that's why I like to go to Puerto Rico to train because if I don't have martial art if I walk to a place perhaps is the remnants of what happened in the past for me I will not feel confidence maybe it left a scar in my mind I don't I'm not a psychologist but may perhaps that's what a psychologist will tell me because it left a big scar but I think that scar is a gift it could be I think it is with you because I think that scar forces you to continue to grow and learn and even though you're your competitive career as a professional and as a champion may or may not be done depending on whether or not Dana White shows up in a check it shows up with a good check and at the right time so the money and the timing they know very important very important show up at wildcard gym why you see him in the south box dance but even if that doesn't happen you what's what's important is that that gift makes you constantly look to improve yourself and because you know the benefits of that they they even though like you would think like people listening to this can we wait wait wait George St. Pierre is a confidence thing like you're the fucking one of the greatest of all time have you ever like a list of like the Mount Rushmore of great martial artists you're on that that Mount Rushmore man but still you're honest and you're honest about your your feelings on these things and I think it's a very important thing for people to hear because there's a real great benefit for anybody in challenging yourself it's a great benefit and it doesn't mean that you have to be the world champion does it like as a martial artist comparing yourself to who you used to be is what's important who were you last week and who are you now are you growing are you getting better are you learning new skills because if you're not you're doing it wrong you're supposed to you're supposed to be challenging yourself yeah yeah I think that's the biggest benefit for me um you know like like and it helped me love myself you know what I mean I like to to be fit I like to be in good health and uh that's what martial art taught me and and it's something that changed my life you know that that's one of the benefit of course if you look at competition and mixed martial art you know sometimes it has a very uh you know violent hand thing but what it can brings to an individual it's so much you know it's so more positive than the what you see sometime on tv and I think it would benefit the bullies too I've always said like people say like what's the best way to stop bullying we'll teach everybody how to fight because a lot of the reasons why the bullies do it because they're looking for some sort of external validation they're looking to dominate people to make themselves feel better but if they could just learn martial arts the the people that we know that are good at martial arts are some of the nicest people in the world yeah like jujitsu people in particular they're so nice most people that I know that are just fucking stone cold killers they're so friendly they're so nice you know I grew up in Canada and I feel very lucky to grow up in Canada but it's not sometime because you grow up in a nice place that nice things happen you know what I mean everybody can face different adversity and I and and I think it's important to to love yourself to accept yourself as a person if in order to change your your your your surrounding and and it's very important in life and everything you know like if you want to if you want to do good you have to look at yourself in the mirror and accept who you are and who and try to be who you want to become yes you said it once I believe you said you know we talk about loving yourself sometimes you love yourself a lot a lot sometimes you don't right because we all do things that we regret sometimes nobody's perfect sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like man I just did something very stupid I don't really love myself sometimes I love myself a lot but you said it like you're not the person who you are who you were in the past you're the person who you are now and and and I remember I've learned that from you and it was a great code that inspired me and it's the truth because we all learn you know sometimes we talk about someone oh I don't want it but that person is not the same that you met in the past he perhaps is different perhaps it's better it's better or maybe he's worse maybe he's worse that's right yeah you have to internalize that that you just because you've made mistakes you are not the person who you were when you were at your lowest mistake you have to realize those mistakes although they're very painful they're very valuable because they teach you how you not how you want to never be again if you don't experience yourself at a low point you don't know how bad it is like you have to experience those bad moments and they're like oh I'm capable of complete total failure that's right like now I have to I have to like never allow myself to get to that place again and for many fighters there's there's fighters where they quit in a fight and then they they always quit but some fighters quit they're like I'll never fucking quit again yeah and they grow stronger because of that so sometimes people say well once a quitter always a quitter I say bullshit that's right because some some guys are quit and because of that they're more dangerous than ever because they had to go home and live with themselves because of that quitting and they fucking hate it so they train harder than ever and they're terrified of that weakness so they're a horrifying fighter to face because they've faced the worst possible feeling you can feed sometimes the worst feeling you can face as a fighter is not loss but failing yourself knowing that you could have done more but quitting