Conor McGregor Quotes

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.

Standing toe to toe with another fighter, I could probably do well, but a smart fighter is not going to stand toe to toe with me, and they're going to move to a weakness.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

I love fighting big guys because I'm fast. I'm not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I'm inside, I'm wrestling with them, and they're just wrestling, but all the time, I'm chopping; I'm slapping.

Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

My striking is on a different level.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

I'm an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I've got good footwork.

Being a woman fighter, I can't just go out there and manhandle a girl, I need to be very strategic: Use my skills, head movement and defence, then seek and destroy.

I can box, I can bang, I can switch, I can punch, I'm not slow.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.