Quote of the Day: Georges St. Pierre, Renaissance Man

by Chris Nelson on Jul 22, 2008 5:26 PM EDT in MMA News

MMA STOMPING GROUNDS: What's one thing you want people to know about you that they might not already know?

ST. PIERRE: Fighting is not my life. Fighting is what I like to do in my life and it's part of my life, but it's not my whole life.

MMA STOMPING GROUNDS: What do you like to do away from fighting?

ST. PIERRE: I'm a very intellectual guy. I like to study about things like philosophy, archaeology and things like that. I'm a big fan of movies, too. I go to movie theater every week, sometimes twice a week.

MMA STOMPING GROUNDS: Who is your favorite actor?

ST. PIERRE: It's … damn, what's his name? Forrest Gump … Tom Hanks. That's it.

- UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre, in an interview with the Baltimore Sun's Mark Chalifoux

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I hope he wasn’t serious about looking up to Houston Alexander.

by Flying Gogoplata on Jul 22, 2008 6:33 PM EDT reply actions

Houston is a good PERSON...

so I have no beef with looking up to him

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by Brent Brookhouse on Jul 22, 2008 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions

I met Houston at a UFC event in Columbus. He took the time to get on the phone with my friend, who is a huge fan of his but couldn’t make the show, and thanked him for the support and talked to him for about a minute then took pictures with my friends and me. Then after the show I saw him again and we talked about fighting and how easy his job was and how great full he was for all of his fans. (I told him that his job was harder than mine since no one is punching me in the face at my job).

Seriously great guy.

by Day Man on Jul 22, 2008 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions

That’s awesome. I have even more respect for him now than I did when I found out he was a DJ.

by Chris Nelson on Jul 22, 2008 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions

HES A DJ?

by Day Man on Jul 23, 2008 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions

Not sure if you’re joking because Goldie seems to mention it every time he fights. (I tune him out sometimes too…)
But if not, yeah, he used to go by “Strong Arm” on Power 106.9 in Omaha.

by Chris Nelson on Jul 23, 2008 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions

Haha, yea, I think my problem is that I was at the Houston-Jardine fight so I didn’t hear it then and I missed Houston-Sakara. (And unfortunately even Goldie can’t get out all of his fun facts in the 9 seconds of fight time fro Houston-Irvin).

That is pretty awsome, I had no idea. I have family there and was thinking about attending the upcoming card. I’ll have to do some research on that.

Thanks for the heads up (and diving past the ever present potential sarcasm).

Also, my friends and I have a drinking game for Mike. Every time he smiles awkwardly at the camera when Joe is talking, drink. Every time he emphasizes a word out of nowhere, drink. Every time he shills a product mid fight, drink.
Mix in a little drink every time the camera catches Buffer land one of his turns and its a pretty fun night.

by Day Man on Jul 23, 2008 3:18 AM EDT up reply actions

I’m sure he’s a great person but I guess GSP should have made that more clear.

He sure does look up to some questionable folk, be it the steroid-using Royce Gracie or the cocky Matt Hughes.

by Flying Gogoplata on Jul 22, 2008 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Philosophy? Really? Who is he kidding?

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by jemaleddin on Jul 22, 2008 6:41 PM EDT reply actions

Why not?

by AJB on Jul 22, 2008 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions

I would accept that he was a big fan of Foucault and Baudrillard, but then he says his favorite actor is Forest Gump? Seriously? And now I’m supposed to wonder if he’s a post-structuralist or something?

My bologna has a first name, its G-S-P…A-R? Whatever. Something like that.

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by jemaleddin on Jul 23, 2008 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions

That read more like him thinking out loud trying to come up with Hanks’ name, not him saying Forrest Gump was his favorite actor. That said, I also doubt he’s a serious student of philosophy.

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by Richard Wade on Jul 24, 2008 3:57 AM EDT up reply actions