I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.
CONOR MCGREGORMany 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.
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My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.
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I kind of love Cole Miller.
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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.
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Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
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Life is about growing and improving and getting better.
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I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
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Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality.
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I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.
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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.
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Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.
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I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going.
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I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.
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We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.
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A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.
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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.
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