Conor McGregor Quotes - Page 3

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

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.

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.

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.

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

I believe in believing.

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

One thing I believe that's a key to success is celebrate your surroundings.

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

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

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.

Pain is part of the sport.

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.

Training to me isn't about a set time at the gym - I move at all times of the day and night.

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.

{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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

It's important to stay hydrated - first thing I do in the morning is stretch and drink water.

I love money because I've earned it.