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
adversity fighting mma
Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.
real adversity fighting
Real champions fight through adversity.
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.
moved onto people
People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.
handle people truth
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
ups
There's many ups and downs in the fight game.
simply smack term trash truth
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.
careers certain chase fighters hear work
I don't fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.
ali muhammad
Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.
approach arts change martial people
I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.
We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight.
creates excitement negative time
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.
beating crap good job loads paid
I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.
I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.