Conor McGregor
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.
Posture for combat is so vital.
Any top-level athlete, it's always the same. There's always that hint of arrogance there... It's hard to be humble when you're the best.
Why go through life if you're not going to challenge yourself?
A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session - you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It's a double whammy.
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.
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.
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.
When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.
I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.
I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.
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 used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.Collection: Sorry
At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.Collection: Mma
There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.Collection: Giving Up
If you have a clear picture in your head of something that's going to happen... then nothing can stop it.Collection: Mma
Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.Collection: Attitude
Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything.Collection: Loyalty
I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.Collection: Men
Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.Collection: Art
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.Collection: Reality
I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.Collection: Mma
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.Collection: Humble
Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.Collection: Grateful
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.Collection: Atheist
You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between.Collection: Worst
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.Collection: Mma
I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.Collection: Believe
Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envisionCollection: Failure Is Not An Option
I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.Collection: Ufc
Know yourself, to know others.Collection: Mma
I don't care about anything I don't need to care about.Collection: Needs
Don't impersonate. Innovate.Collection: Mma
You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.Collection: Mma
Always be civil, but with a plan to neutralise everyone in the room.Collection: Mma
Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.Collection: Fun
Movement for me is meditation.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Fighting
Listen, I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else.Collection: Fighting
Think street, train sport.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Class
Machines don't use machines.Collection: Machines
It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.Collection: Two
The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.Collection: Laughing
I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.Collection: Want
If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.Collection: Mma
I plot my ascent daily.Collection: Mma