“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.”

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

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 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.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes.

If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

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.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics,

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it’s not about the W…It’s everything about the W with me!

You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

I’m a fighter. I’m a survivor, and I’ll get through anything people can throw at me.

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