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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"I'm going to tell you the truth: I always train. I started training when I was 7 years old. I've never stopped. Training it part of my life, so it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean I'm going to be back or not. Whether I retire or not or come back or not, I'm always going to be training. I like to feel in shape and feel good in my own skin. That's why I'm training.
When [you've] lost the motivation, you cannot reinvent yourself, and you stay the same Georges St-Pierre you are, and for me, it was time for me [to walk away]. After the [Hendricks] fight I was like, 'Man, you need to take time off to see where I'm going. I have a lack of motivation and I don't want to wait until it's too late.' If you lose a race in another sport, it's not bad. But if you lose a fight in mixed martial arts, you get damage. It's very bad. I wanted to take some time off to see where I'm going. If I ever come back, it's going to be important for me to reinvent myself and become a much better version than I was."
Penick's Analysis: He seems no closer to a definitive decision than he's been in the past 11 months, but he's also been closer to the side of retirement since the outset. The way he speaks about it, the drive just doesn't seem there to be back to the grind that he found himself in down the stretch of his title run, and while he may yet decide he wants to reinvent himself and return, I still wouldn't be surprised if he just transitions to a full on retirement.
[Georges St-Pierre art by Travis Beaven (c) MMATorch.com]
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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