Conor McGregor Quotes

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

A forest bird never wants a cage.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.