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Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.
I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.
I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.
It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.
If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.
I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.
I'm focusing on me. I'm focusing on my family's security, my family's financial security, so that's all I can do.
The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.
I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.
There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.
I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don't get obsessed with one style or one skill.
It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.
I love what I do... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world... I love this game more than anything.
There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.
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.
Getting enough protein is important when I train, to help build muscle and recover, so I'll supplement with protein shakes.
My diet is usually pretty consistent whether I'm training for a specific fight or not. I don't like to mess too much with it.
You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.
I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do.
People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.
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.
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.
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 love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I'm grateful every single day.
I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.
I worked my ass off to earn what I have. You have to understand, not many people where I come from get to experience this kind of life.
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.
Any top-level athlete, it's always the same. There's always that hint of arrogance there... It's hard to be humble when you're the best.
'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.
When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.
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.
That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.
I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
From 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.
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.
There's two things I really like to do and that's whoop ass and look good. I'm doing one of them right now and on Saturday night, I'm doing the other.
I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.
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.
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.
People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.
I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.
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.
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.
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.
You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.
I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all.
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.