Top 257 Quotes & Sayings by Conor McGregor - Page 2

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

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.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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

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

Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

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.

What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

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.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

'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.

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

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.

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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.

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 don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement.

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.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

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

I will fight in many weight divisions.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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.

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

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

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

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.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

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 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.

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

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.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

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 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 sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.

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

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 want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight.

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