Conor McGregor
I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.Collection: Believe
One thing I believe that's a key to success is celebrate your surroundings.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Overcoming
I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.Collection: Dream
I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.Collection: Believe
Pain is part of the sport.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Beautiful
I'm on top of the world, man. And I intend to stay there.Collection: Men
Training to me isn't about a set time at the gym - I move at all times of the day and night.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Fun
{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.Collection: Games
You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.Collection: Clouds
The support gets me to the gym but the doubt keeps me there.Collection: Mma
I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Stupid
A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Games
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.Collection: People
It's important to stay hydrated - first thing I do in the morning is stretch and drink water.Collection: Morning
I love money because I've earned it.Collection: Love Of Money
I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.Collection: Mma
An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.Collection: Recovery
To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.Collection: Levels
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.Collection: Fighting
Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Morning
Real champions fight through adversity.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Rain
There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."Collection: Men
I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.Collection: Mma
I don't work, I live... I don't have a job, I just have a life.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Sports
Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.Collection: Hurt
You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Night
I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.Collection: Hate
I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.Collection: Mma
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.Collection: Sports
I don't worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.Collection: Games
Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.Collection: Mma
Smart work pays best. Trust it.Collection: Trust
You sleep on a win and you'll wake up with a loss.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Dad
I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Moving
I hold no emotions while I am in there... in there it is just calm and creative.Collection: Mma
Speed is the essence of war.Collection: War