Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor
Conor Anthony McGregoris an Irish professional mixed martial artist who is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Throughout his career, he has competed as a featherweight, lightweight and welterweight. McGregor is the current UFC Featherweight Champion...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMMA Fighter
Date of Birth14 July 1988
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
sweet fighting serious
If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.
sports fighting thinking
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.
running real adversity
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.
mma plot ascent
I plot my ascent daily.
moving night training
Training to me isn't about a set time at the gym - I move at all times of the day and night.
fighting thinking smell
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.
levels obsession high-level
To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.
stupid fighting games
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.
winning people obsessed
Seems like people get obsessed about times and numbers and weights and that - I'm obsessed with winning.
mma impersonate
Don't impersonate. Innovate.
dream mma focus
I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.
thinking focus want
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.
believe thinking i-believe
I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.
dark fighting tough-times
I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.