This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!’ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.
CONOR MCGREGORThis guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!’ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.
CONOR MCGREGORMy unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.
CONOR MCGREGORI always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.
CONOR MCGREGORWe are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.
CONOR MCGREGORI don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.
CONOR MCGREGORYou beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.
CONOR MCGREGORI don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.
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 MCGREGORYou 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.
CONOR MCGREGORFrom the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.
CONOR MCGREGORI 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.
CONOR MCGREGORI 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.’
CONOR MCGREGORI don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.
CONOR MCGREGORThe mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.
CONOR MCGREGORIf they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can’t stop me going to fight a boxing fight.
CONOR MCGREGORI like to look good, my friend.
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