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.

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.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

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.

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

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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

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

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

I like looking good. But it's also about the feeling, right?

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

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

Getting enough protein is important when I train, to help build muscle and recover, so I'll supplement with protein shakes.

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

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

It's important to stay hydrated - first thing I do in the morning is stretch and drink water.

I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.

I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

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.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can't even describe that feeling. That's why I like the best - the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

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 don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

I'm on top of the world, man. And I intend to stay there.

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.

Have fun, that's what it's all about. People get stressed over it... Let competition eat them up. That's not me, I just get in and have fun. That's what I'm here to do: Have fun and make some money doing it.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

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

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

It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.

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

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. 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. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.

I worked my ass off to earn what I have. You have to understand, not many people where I come from get to experience this kind of life.

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

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

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

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

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

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

Machines don't use machines.

I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.

It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.

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

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.

Know yourself, to know others.

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn't just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

I whoop people for truckloads of cash

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

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

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

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

I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.

My diet is usually pretty consistent whether I'm training for a specific fight or not. I don't like to mess too much with it.

The support gets me to the gym but the doubt keeps me there.

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

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.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

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

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I plot my ascent daily.

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

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.