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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"What I realize most is when you get hurt and you can't do that for a long time, you realize that's all you've been. It's like when you're in love with your girlfriend... You're with her every day, and you don't realize [how much] you love that person. When you're away from her for a long time, you realize how much you love her because you miss her, miss her, miss her, miss her. I think it's the same thing [with being away from the UFC]. I want to get into that cage, [and] I want to live every second of it as best I can. I lost a little bit of the fire, you know? If you don't have fun what you're doing, just don't do it. I'm good at what I do because I have fun. If you don't, you become not as good. I have fun at what I do, and I want to enjoy every second of it."
-Georges St-Pierre discusses regaining his fire and having fun with the UFC again during Wednesday's media conference call (via FoxSports.com).
Penick's Analysis: It's good to hear St-Pierre talk about the joy of being in this sport, because he was getting into a funk down the stretch with is title fights where it seemed more like his duty to simply win fights. He was going through the motions, and the fact that he's the best fighter the welterweight division's ever seen allowed him to get through some of those fights with relative ease, while not really doing a ton in them. Perhaps that will change when he steps in against Carlos Condit next weekend, and it will be exciting to see whether or not he loosens up with things in the cage, to see whether or not he takes chances and tries to put a stamp on his first fight in 19 months.
Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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