I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
— Conor McGregor
I'm just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.
I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.
Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious.
My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.
You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.
I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.
From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.
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 want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.
Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.
I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I'm going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that's what will happen.
I always put myself out there. I'm not afraid to commit to something.
I run New York City!
There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.
The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.
When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.
I'm committed to the fight game.
I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.
I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.
I'd love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what's what.
You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.
Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement.
We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch.
To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.
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.
If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.
I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.
It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It's still the same emotions.
The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.
I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.
If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.
I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.
My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.
I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.
I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.
People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.
Posture for combat is so vital.
I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.
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 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 sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.
Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That's it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.
What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.
What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.
Nobody is my boss.
Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.
