Conor McGregor Quotes

Football is all I know.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

I can't put my mind to anything else. I'm not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it's all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it's football the whole time. I think I'm obsessed!

One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

I don't think about anything other than focusing at Real Madrid.

When it's football time, that's where I am - the studying, the working, the practicing, everything.

If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.

Real Madrid have to be at their best in every single training session and every single game.

I live and breathe football.

I had some great players, great coaches, the best organization in football.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

All I have ever known is football.

I don't spend all day thinking about football. But a large part of it, yeah.

My life revolves around the ball.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

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.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.