I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.
CONOR MCGREGORI never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.
CONOR MCGREGORAny top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.
CONOR MCGREGORCage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.
CONOR MCGREGORI enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
CONOR MCGREGORSome people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
CONOR MCGREGORI 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.
CONOR MCGREGORPeople say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.
CONOR MCGREGORI’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.
CONOR MCGREGORMy dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.
CONOR MCGREGORI’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.
CONOR MCGREGORThere are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.
CONOR MCGREGORI am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics,
CONOR MCGREGORI run New York City!
CONOR MCGREGORWhen you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.
CONOR MCGREGORI am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.
CONOR MCGREGORWhat it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.
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