Quotes from Conor McGregor

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

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.

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

I like looking good. But it's also about the feeling, right?

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

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.

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.

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

I always put myself out there. I'm not afraid to commit to something.

I'm committed to the fight game.

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.

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

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.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

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

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

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 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.

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.

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?

I always think street but train sport.

Think street, train sport.

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

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