Conor McGregor Quotes

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it.

Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.

I think I would pose a big threat at 145.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

A lot of guys are just as fast, just as strong, or just as big as me. But they're not going to be able to think the way I do on the field.