GSP: I lost the love of the sport
I had a lot of personal issues and I lost the love of the sport. I was doing it because…
I had a lot of personal issues and I lost the love of the sport. I was doing it because I had to, not because I really wanted to, St-Pierre said in an interview with Fuel TV on Tuesday.
During that time, St-Pierre suffered a major injury to his knee that required reconstructive surgery, more than a year away from the sport, and hours upon hours of rehabilitation. Not only did St-Pierre have to find a way to nurse his body back to health, but he had to get his mind right.
The only way to accomplish both of those goals was to make some major changes.
I woke up in the morning and I was happy with my life, but I didn’t have the drive to go further and further, said St-Pierre.
I told myself when I took that long time off, I said, you know what, I’m going to do everything. I cannot make everybody in life happy, but it’s time for me to be a little bit selfish and organize my training that I can take the best of it, maximize the potential of my training and make it the best I can be and that’s what I did.