Conor McGregor Quotes

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

When I broke my leg, I never thought I'd ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

When you are injured you have to keep a positive mindset and keep moving forward.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.