“I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.”

Yeah, the Mac Life… it’s about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That’s how you get to be notorious.

I’m committed to the fight game.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

My family’s lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Any 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.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

That’s great. God is using that stuff and it’s great.

Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

It’s important that top clubs don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

I don’t write all my stuff.

With all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.

There’s a lot to do when you’re a kid – spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye – stuff to be getting on with.