Quotes About Dedication

McGregor sells the show and fights well, he's a real athlete who doesn't get out of shape and is always training.

The people who know me, the fans who've watched my fights, they know what I'm about. They know that I'm going to give 100 percent of everything I have each and every time I get into the octagon.

Any fighter who is serious about boxing wants to be in those big fights, fighting the best fighters, with the whole country watching and talking about it.

I will always fight tough fights, and that's what I need in order to get to the belt.

I have had 100 fights and I am very proud.

Very few people can reach 100 fights.

Conor knows how to fight and he knows how to box. He has been boxing professional boxers for his whole life, he has had almost 50 amateur boxing fights.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

If you want something badly enough, you'll figure it out.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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.

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

When guys were going out to parties, I was going to the gym. I figured, for all my mom sacrificed for me, it was the least I could do.

When I started working on the sounds and music of 'Breaking the Rules,' I figured that I am really good at it so I was happy.

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

I have, compartmentalized in my head, one file for the NFL, one for college basketball and one for golf. They contain everything I've ever read, watched and learned.

Filipino fighters are very tough, they have great heart every time they step into a ring or a cage.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.