“I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.”

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.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.

The medium is secondary to the stories.

You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I think every director has a different methodology.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.