Top 257 Quotes & Sayings by Conor McGregor - Page 3

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

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.

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

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

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.

You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

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

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.

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.

I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.

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

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

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

Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

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.

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.

You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.

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

Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything.

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

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

I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.

I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.

I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Real champions fight through adversity.

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.

I don't care about anything I don't need to care about.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

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.

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep.

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.

Pain is part of the sport.

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

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.

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

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

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

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

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.

I believe in believing.

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.

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

I plot my ascent daily.

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.

Know yourself, to know others.

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

You sleep on a win and you'll wake up with a loss.

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

I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

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

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.