MMAnytt har tidigare rapporterat om att George ”Rush” St Pierre tar en time out på obestämd tid. Det är många som inte har möjlighet eller ork att lyssna igenom hela presskonferensen. För att underlätta för er har vi samlat det GSP sa på presskonferensen i denna artikel.
Det var en öppenhjärtlig GSP som hördes över telefon på presskonferensen. Alla hade förväntat sig att beskedet skulle komma men det går ändå inte att förvånas samtidigt. Här nedan följer citat av GSP från dagens presskonferens.
”I’ve been fighting for a long time. 22 fights in the UFC. 15 of my fights were for a world title. I’ve been a very long time for a high level. It’s a lot of pressure, a lot of criticism, and I’ve decided I need to take time off. I know UFC is a business, and it can’t wait for one person. They have to keep things rolling, so I’ve vacated my title for the respect of the other competitors.”
”I believe one day that I will come back. The problem is I don’t know how long. I cannot put myself in another training camp right now. I feel like mentally I need a break. That’s why, I don’t want to make anybody wait. I just want to do it when I feel like it, and I’ll become stronger when I will. It’s going to be up to me; it has to be on my terms.”
”If I give you a date, I immediately put myself back into a date, into pressure, (and) I’m going to start thinking about it. It has to be on my terms. I don’t know when, I don’t know if. I don’t know, I think I will. I can’t say 100-percent. But right now I don’t want the people thinking about me.”
”It´s all this pressure, all this weight I carry on my shoulders has been building up over a long time”
”To tell you the truth, I love my sport. I’ve never been a victim. I’ve never been a victim of anything. I choose this life. I choose to do this. Nobody ever forced me. But the problem is, as much as I choose to do it, now I choose to not do it. It’s my right. I’m allowed to if I choose to not do it, because I feel mentally, it’s a lot of pressure. Nobody can understand the situation that I am in. It’s all this pressure, all this weight I carry on my shoulders has been building up over a long time.”
”People are like, ‘Aw, you only fight maybe ever four months.’ But what they don’t understand is there’s so much promotion going with it. It’s the press tour, the Primetime, the cameras, the this, the trash talking, the build-up. Everywhere I go; in restaurants, as soon as I step out of my house now in Quebec because the sport now is popular, everybody says, ‘Hey, good luck with fight. Hey, the fight this. Hey, the fight that. Hey, what are you going to do to that guy?’ They talk about me, about this, all the time, and it’s completely insane. It’s everybody day of my life. So nobody can understand this pressure.”
”There’s a lot of things I wanted to do. I wanted to be the greatest. I said before, I wanted to do things to be remembered. I wanted to do things to be remembered, to make a difference in the sport; make the sport reach another level. I tried to do it during my last fight. Unfortunately it didn’t work. That means the people were not ready for it, unfortunately. I tried my best. I tried to do everything possible.”
