A biography for Conor McGregorhasn’t been written yet.
“What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.”
“The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.”
“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.”
“What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.”
“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.”
“Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.”
“The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.”
“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.”
“Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.”
“I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.”
“There's many ups and downs in the fight game.”
“I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.”
“There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.”
“I'm already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.”
“My goal is to be number one in MMA.”
“What can I say? I'm a talker.”
“Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.”
“I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That's it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.”
“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.”
“I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.”