Conor McGregor Quotes

Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.

I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

Movement for me is meditation.

I've never voted, no.

Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself ... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

I mean I love movement. I mean the energy that comes from the way I move. We get energy from how we move. I mean the control I get from knowing everything about how my body feels and how it is working.

It's good to make your brain work more than your body.

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

And I'd just like to say from the bottom of my heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize… to absolutely nobody

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

You sleep on a win and you'll wake up with a loss.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I will cross that bridge when it comes. I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm. I am into it in a big way, and I am good at it, and I am going to get very, very rich and then I will get out and we will see what comes after that.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think what a waste of energy. If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet up, buy all the things she wants, have a nice breakfast with you and me in the Four Seasons. Any fights in families like mine come from everyone worrying about money. I'm taking all those worries away. That makes me feel happy, makes me really proud of what I do.

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat ... a man that doesn't give up.

You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between.

I don't really care. The whole division can hate me. The whole roster can hate me. The whole of America can hate me. I only need one American to love me. And that's Mr. Benjamin Franklin. As long as he loves me, I am good.

I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.

My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.

Speed is the essence of war.

I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

I move in many ways. I can adapt and overcome to any situation.

People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

I don't work, I live ... I don't have a job, I just have a life.

There's two things I really like to do and that's whoop ass and look good. I'm doing one of them right now and on Saturday night, I'm doing the other.

I don't worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

Glutes are power.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

If you have a clear picture in your head of something that's going to happen ... then nothing can stop it.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I'll die a crazy old man!

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.

I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.

I whoop people for truckloads of cash

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.

I don't care about anything I don't need to care about.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I knew I'd be in the UFC since I started my career.

I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

Always be civil, but with a plan to neutralise everyone in the room.

At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.

Victorious. I feel that is why I did all the training, why I make the sacrifices, that is why I got into the shape I am in. I feel I have won, that's millions more coming my way, I feel great.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

I don't fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight.

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.

I hold no emotions while I am in there ... in there it is just calm and creative.

I don't give a f***. We're not fighting. I don't care what anyone thinks about me. All the stuff I have to do outside the fighting, the promotion, this, I don't give a f***. But when I am facing up for a fight, I know what they're thinking. I can read their minds. When I am going face to face with an opponent, nose to nose, I can smell the fear, and I'm feeling no fear at all.

I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.

I plot my ascent daily.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

One thing I believe that's a key to success is celebrate your surroundings.

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

I work hard and fight easy.

I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.