Conor McGregor Quotes

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

It’s good to make your brain work more than your body.

I’m committed to the fight game.

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’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.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

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.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

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.

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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

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.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

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.

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.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

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 mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

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

I don’t feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

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.

Glutes are power.

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

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.

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

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.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

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.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

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.

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.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

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.

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.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

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.