Conor McGregor Quotations

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

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

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.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.

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

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

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

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

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.

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.

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

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

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

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

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.

I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

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

I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.

I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don't get obsessed with one style or one skill.

Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

As far as I'm concerned, I just speak the truth.

Movement for me is meditation.

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.

I love what I do... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world... I love this game more than anything.

I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.

I believe in believing.

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

You can take on the world in a good suit.

Listen, I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else.

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Speed is the essence of war.

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.

I don't use machines - animals don't use machines.

Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t.

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all.

People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.

I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don't get to be world champion unless you do that.

The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

I always think street but train sport.

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.

Late switches are part of fighting and I've handled them all.

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

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

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

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.

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

I've never voted, no.

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

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'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

I work hard and fight easy.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

Movement is meditation. Move to win.

I'm not a fan of routine.

Think street, train sport.

I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too.

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

There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do.

You don't get to be world champion unless you do that...

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

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

Pain is part of the sport.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

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

If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.

I love money because I've earned it.

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.

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.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I eat, sleep and breathe training.

Real champions fight through adversity.

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

You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

I love money, and I love movement. I like what it has let me do for my family. I have paid off my mum and dad's mortgage, I've bought them two BMWs, they can have anything they want. I am buying a fleet of cars for myself. I have unemployed my sisters, they don't need to work, don't need to worry about a thing.

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

It's gone, boxing's gone. What is there in boxing? Who is there to talk about, who is there that people go, "Yeah I want to fight him?", and fans go "I wanna see that fight"? There's Floyd Mayweather, and he is 38, 39, he's maybe got one fight left. What else is there? He'll have a last fight or two and a couple of guys will get a few million dollars, but way less than I'm gonna be getting in future. This sport is getting bigger all the time, and I am making it bigger.

If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport, it is my life. I study it, I think about it, all the time. Nothing else matters.

Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

I plot my ascent daily.

Training to me isn't about a set time at the gym - I move at all times of the day and night.

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.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

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.

Seems like people get obsessed about times and numbers and weights and that - I'm obsessed with winning.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

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