Conor McGregor Quotes & Sayings

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Know yourself, to know others. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t. — Conor McGregor

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

Smart work pays best. Trust it. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine. — Conor McGregor

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. — Conor McGregor

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff. — Conor McGregor

I've never voted, no. — Conor McGregor

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life. — Conor McGregor

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

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

You don't get to be world champion unless you do that ... — Conor McGregor

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

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say. — Conor McGregor

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. — Conor McGregor

You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction. — Conor McGregor

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

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. — Conor McGregor

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

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. — Conor McGregor

One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble. — Conor McGregor

Movement for me is meditation. — Conor McGregor

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

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

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

What can I say? I'm a talker. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do? — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have. — Conor McGregor

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

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. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

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

There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both. — Conor McGregor

I always think street but train sport. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Life is about growing and improving and getting better. — Conor McGregor

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief. — Conor McGregor

The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling. — Conor McGregor

I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate. — Conor McGregor

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

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

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus. — Conor McGregor

I'm cocky in prediction, I'm confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat. — Conor McGregor

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable. — Conor McGregor

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

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. — Conor McGregor

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

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind. — Conor McGregor

I am comfortable in the uncomfortable. — Conor McGregor

Listen, I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own. — Conor McGregor

I'll die a crazy old man! — Conor McGregor

Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything. — Conor McGregor

There's many ups and downs in the fight game. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Movement is meditation. Move to win. — Conor McGregor

When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen. — Conor McGregor

I move in many ways. I can adapt and overcome to any situation. — Conor McGregor

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused. — Conor McGregor

If you are the best, you must go that extra mile. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

I stay ready so I don't have to get ready. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

Victorious. I feel that is why I did all the training, why I make the sacrifices, that is why I got into the shape I am in. I feel I have won, that's millions more coming my way, I feel great. — Conor McGregor

I plot my ascent daily. — Conor McGregor

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. — Conor McGregor

I knew I'd be in the UFC since I started my career. — Conor McGregor

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

I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too. — Conor McGregor

Don't impersonate. Innovate. — Conor McGregor

I kind of love Cole Miller. — Conor McGregor

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight. — Conor McGregor

I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all. — Conor McGregor

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

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it. — Conor McGregor

I don't work, I live ... I don't have a job, I just have a life. — Conor McGregor

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

I hold no emotions while I am in there ... in there it is just calm and creative. — Conor McGregor

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away. — Conor McGregor

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed. — Conor McGregor