Conor McGregor
Conor McGregor
Conor Anthony McGregoris an Irish professional mixed martial artist who is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Throughout his career, he has competed as a featherweight, lightweight and welterweight. McGregor is the current UFC Featherweight Champion...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMMA Fighter
Date of Birth14 July 1988
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
fun mma people
Have fun, that's what it's all about. People get stressed over it... Let competition eat them up. That's not me, I just get in and have fun. That's what I'm here to do: Have fun and make some money doing it.
recovery mma discovery
An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.
mma rooms plans
Always be civil, but with a plan to neutralise everyone in the room.
mma people proving-people-wrong
I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.
mma want plates
I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.
mma pressure illusion
Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.
dark fighting tough-times
I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.
sports fighting thinking
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 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.
levels obsession high-level
To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.
worst
You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between.
games uncomfortable-situations losing
{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.
running real adversity
Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.
mma plot ascent
I plot my ascent daily.
sports football mean
Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.