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

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I 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.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I like to look good, my friend.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

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.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I 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.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.