- Do I look unhealthy?
Take a look at this physique.
I'm in phenomenal shape, in body and mind.
People say a loss can make or break a fighter.
But trust me, a win can also make or break a fighter.
If you can see it here,
and you have the courage enough to speak it,
it will happen.
Nobody works harder than me.
Inside the octagon, outside the octagon, I am a workhorse.
I knew what was going to happen.
I knew I was going to get here.
They didn't.
It was a lot of stressful years.
A lot of tough times.
Every gym had their set way of doing things.
Don't do it this way, do it that way.
I always felt grateful for even the small things.
I always used to celebrate the small things.
And I slipped a punch and I shuffled my shoulders
and I said, "Muhammad Ali!"
and threw a shot.
People set goals, long distance goals and shit.
That's too much for me.
I appreciate the support of all the fans out here
and all over the world.
I never take it for granted.
I use it as motivation, so.
- He's an Irish mixed martial artist.
He competes in the Featherweight and Lightweight
divisions of the UFC.
He's the current UFC Featherweight champion.
He's Conor McGregor and here are his
Top 10 rules for success.
(jet engine revving)
- [Interviewer] What makes you such a good fighter?
- [Conor] I don't know, I'm just curious about it.
It's in my head 24/7.
There's nothing else I can think.
I don't think about nothing else.
That's it, I'm just curious.
Curiously fascinated, really, and I can't
stop thinking about it.
Everything I do in my life is related to this.
I don't do nothing else if it's not got to do with fighting.
Know what I mean?
That is why.
To be truth, all you got to do is show up.
- [Interviewer] Is that not unhealthy?
- I don't know, do I look unhealthy?
Take a look at this physique.
I'm in phenomenal shape in body and mind.
To me, what's unhealthy is living an unhealthy life.
To me, what's unhealthy is getting up and going through
the same day every day of your life 9 to 5
in an office.
That's unhealthy.
That beats your mind.
I don't work.
I love what I do and that's why I'm doing what I love,
know what I mean?
And that's why it's become a career for me,
because I love it.
I love what I do so I don't think it's unhealthy.
I feel good in my mind.
It's my life.
(Irish music)
- [Commentator] Presents as well.
- [Commentator] McGregor really throwing the legs
to the side landing a nice, big shot.
- [Commentator] He's trying to hurt Jahnsen
with some shots.
He's just covering at the moment.
- [Commentator] Oh, lovely left knee to the ribs.
He was sitting in that sideways position, but now just
hitting the head and landing big strikes.
It's going to McGregor.
Jahnsen's going to have to do something here.
- [Commentator] And that's it!
Newhall has called a halt to this.
Jahnsen was not intelligently defending himself
and Conor McGregor wins by ground and pound
and asks for a reaction from the crowd, which he gets.
- You stare at your past and you'll end up staying there.
It's okay to look back and admire it, but you carry on.
I'm not in the business of staring back at it,
you know what I mean?
And getting lost back there.
People say a loss can make or break a fighter,
but trust me, a win can also make or break a fighter
because they get comfortable with a win.
People can get comfortable with a win and
slack off then.
Slack off on the training, slack off on the diet.
They've won one, they're winners now.
That's not me.
You sleep on a win and you wake up with a loss,
so I just carry on, keep doing what I'm doing.
And that's why this tournament is so good for me.
Vegas straight away.
The fighting Irish headed to the fighting capital.
It's perfect.
Continue on this path, the freight train
straight to the top.
(dramatic music)
If you can see it here and you have
the courage enough to speak it, it will happen.
So, I see these shots, I see these sequences,
and I don't shy away from them.
A lot of times people believe in certain things,
but they keep to themselves.
They don't put it out there.
If you truly believe in it, if you become
vocal with it, you're creating that law of attraction
and it will become reality.
I knew he would overextend and I knew I'd catch him.
So, Mystic Mike strikes again.
(laughing)
(dramatic music)
(crowd yelling and applauding)
(dramatic music)
(crowd cheering and applauding)
(whistling)
I'm enjoying the fruits of my hard work.
Nobody works harder than me inside the octagon,
outside the octagon.
I am a work horse.
So, I am going to enjoy the benefits of this life.
I am going to get myself a big mansion in Las Vegas,
I'm going to get the soft top cars.
I'm going to bring my whole team out.
I'm going to spoil them and give them this life.
Big steaks that size we're eating
every single night each.
We're eating good, we're living good.
It's human nature.
Some people will sit and take positivity from that.
They will look at that and take inspiration and
it will inspire them to go and push for that.
Others will shell up and critique it
and be negative towards it, but one thing
is for sure.
Those people will stay where they are.
The people who take inspiration from it will rise up
and also one day experience that life.
So, this is human nature.
Some go one way, some go the other way,
but I am enjoying my money, my hard earned money
that I have dedicated my life to.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Curling up away from danger as he's.
(upbeat music)
(crowd cheering)
- [Commentator] Roundhouse turning and he's coming.
(crowd cheering)
This could be it!
(crowd cheering)
Conor McGregor is victorious.
The crowd go absolutely wild.
He gets in what training that he was looking for.
- [Interviewer] Did you ever have, let's call it
a normal job, Conor? A 9 to 5?
- Yeah because the Irish thing is to getting to trade
straightaway.
I was no different.
As soon as I finished school
I was always getting pestered.
What are you doing with your life?
You know?
Doing this, doing that.
They didn't know what it was.
They didn't know MMA was, they didn't know none of this.
They didn't know I could make a career out of it.
As far as they were concerned,
mom and dad I'm talking about, I was just
getting into a cage and fighting with some other guy.
They didn't know nothing about it.
No one did, really, but I knew.
You know what I mean?
I knew and then I ended up getting a trade
just to keep them quiet because I used to have
a lot of fights with me dad. A lot
- [Interviewer] What trade did you get?
- I ended up getting a trade as a plumber.
Literally opened the back alleys on the Wicklow Mountains.
I feel that site was one of the biggest
sites in Europe, Kiltearn.
It was right at that skiing place, huge.
And now it's just abandoned.
Now it's just deserted.
So, I used to go up there six o'clock,
five o'clock in the morning I was on my M-50.
I used to have to walk to the N-4,
about half an hour from me.
Hellish, waiting for some limited guy
that I didn't even know.
He drove on the N-4 and I'd have
to flag him down.
Nightmare, yeah.
Two hours down on the M-50, two hours back.
Usually 14 hour days and I was the first year.
So, I had to go and do everything.
I had to go to the shop.
I had to go and get this and get that.
So, I always had trouble with that.
I was like, this isn't for me.
This is not for me.
- [Interviewer] How long did you last?
- I lasted 18 months doing it, but it was tough.
It wasn't the life for me.
And then John said, because I was training with John
as well at the time.
And then John got in touch and says, "I have a show.
On the show would you like to fight on it?"
And that was it.
I just packed it in, didn't show up.
Me dad used to come in and punch the hell out me
and try to drag me out of bed and I just wouldn't go.
And I remember I hadn't up law for a good few
years removable and that was it.
I just packed it in, quit, and then focused on training.
I knew what was going to happen.
I knew I was going to get here, they didn't.
It was a lot of stressful years, you know what I mean?
A lot of tough times, but I proved them wrong.
I proved myself right.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Conor McGregor.
- [Commentator] Oh, see Steve O'Keefe.
(crowd cheering)
Need to defend.
Again, the inside elbow's coming in.
- [Commentator] This evening.
Oh, wow, righteously, Steve O'Keefe was
- [Commentator] He was out.
- [Commentator] He was unconscious from those strikes.
- [Commentator] He's just come back round
and Conor McGregor is.
- Every gym I went to was always,
they had their set way.
Every gym had their set way of doing things.
Don't do it this way, do it that way.
So, that was just a normal thing that I thought.
I thought people just had their own set way
and you must do it that way.
You must stand this way.
You must kick this way.
You must punch this way.
But with John, when I went to John,
I met my coach, John Kavanagh,
at Straight Blast Gym it wasn't like that.
He had a more open mind and he encouraged
different movements and I'd never experienced
that before.
I'd never heard a coach say that to me before.
And that stuck in my head and I talked to him.
And I said, "This guy is thinking outside the box."
He has a vision that everything works
and he encourages every movement because ultimately
there is a time and a place for every single move.
So, I just knew when I met John
and when he spoke it made
complete sense to me and that was it.
I stuck with him and he stuck with me
and the rest is history.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Favorite striking technique
and we see the punch that lands.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Seconds away from being stopped.
- [Commentator] That's it.
That's it.
- [Commentator] It is a whopper!
Conor McGregor stops Dennis Siver.
- [Commentator] Look at this.
Look at this.
He's going up to Jose Aldo.
Look at this.
Look at Jose Aldo.
- Gratitude is one of the most strongest
forms of power in attracting good things.
If you truly feel grateful for the things in your life.
I always felt grateful for even the small things.
I always used to celebrate the small things.
Now I might be celebrating the bigger things,
but I always celebrate every little good thing
that would happen to me in my life even before
I had any kind of money or any of that.
I would celebrate and I would feel grateful for it.
And it just gave me more and this is exactly the same thing
that's happening right now.
I still remain grateful and more comes.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Hands at his hips.
(crowd cheering)
- [Commentator] Working good.
Just ranked.
- [Commentator] Wow.
That's the real deal, ladies
and gentlemen.
Make no mistake about it, Conor McGregor is for real.
- [Commentator] An entire country is standing
on their feet right now.
- [Commentator] He really did just make it look easy.
He said he would make it look easy,
he made it look easy.
That's the real deal.
- [Commentator] He said, "First round KO," mark my words.
- [Commentator] We believed him.
I mean, that was just glorious.
- Of course I am familiar with Muhammad Ali.
You don't just have him here, he is global.
He is the man.
Muhammad Ali was a guy that done what had not
been done before.
Change the face,
not only the face of his game,
but the face of the world.
He was outspoken, he fought for what he believed in.
He was charismatic.
He was a legend, a hero, and I looked up to him.
One of my first heroes was Muhammad Ali.
When I was 11 years old there was a group of people
and they tried to attack me and a fight broke out
and it was just me and one guy
before everyone else jumped in on me,
but we were fighting each other.
And I slipped a punch and I shuffled my shoulders
and said, "Muhammad Ali!" And threw a shot.
And he rolled under the shot but fell into a knee
and I ended up on top of him.
So, I'm out there calling myself Muhammad Ali
and I'm punching him in the head.
Then somebody came in and tried to kick me
and then a whole group of them came in
and it was just a big fight, but it was me
against six of them.
And I ended up getting my ass whooped.
- [Interviewer] But that first guy, you whooped him out
and you said, "Muhammad Ali".
- I done the Ali shuffle.
I'm only 11 years old.
I done the Ali shuffle, threw a left hook.
He rolled under the left hook.
It was good of him to roll.
He saw it coming and rolled under it,
but he rolled right into a knee.
I was prepared.
I was studying tape, so yeah.
No, so definitely Muhammad Ali was a hero of mine.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Conor's 12 wins, 11 are knockouts
- [Commentator] Caught him with the uppercut there.
- [Commentator] Are knockouts and he almost did it again
- [Commentator] Going backwards.
- [Commentator] Look at that upper.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Uppercut.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Looking to finish it here.
This is why everyone's been talking about Conor McGregor.
- [Commentator] It's all over.
Connor McGregor another first round win, wow!
Ultra impressive UFC debut.
- [Commentator] That is exactly why he's so dangerous.
- I don't like to think too far ahead.
- [Interviewer] So, you haven't thought
alternative careers
- No, I don't like thinking too far ahead.
People set goals, long distance goals and shit.
That's too much for me.
I already feel like I'm living it
and then I just carry on.
I carry on day by day already living the final goal,
the goal of being the world champion.
I already carry myself like I'm a world champion.
I already speak like I'm a world champion and that's it.
I just carry on day by day so I'll take it as it comes.
Again, like I said, you're asking me about the future.
I'll let you know a little bit closer,
you know what I mean?
All I can see right now is the gold.
That's all I can see.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Outside strikes back.
- [Commentator] It was so very well executed.
Ivan Buchinger having a horribly.
(crowd cheering)
How very selfish.
(crowd cheering)
- [Commentator] With just a few shots
Buchinger's completely out of it.
- [Commentator] What a reaction!
What a spectacular knockout by Conor McGregor
as we are bombarded with his fans around
the coveted position.
- [Commentator] Covered in rather a lot of beer
as well, John.
- [Commentator] Ivan Buchinger.
- First, like most fights I usually come out maybe two,
three week before, but every time I come back it
seems to be a little bit more crazy with the fans,
you know?
They treat me like I'm one of their own.
Then I've been driving to the gym every day and I drive
past this guy's apartment.
And on the balcony he has like Irish flags
and a cardboard cutout of me sitting on his balcony.
So, now we're going to go drop in to him and see
what he's about and meet one of the fans.
- [Man] I'd like you to meet Mr. McGregor.
- [Conor] What's up?
- [Fan] Holy shit, man.
- [Conor] How are you?
- Good, how are you?
- [Conor] Not bad.
(laughing)
- [Fan] This is awesome.
- I'm going to wave at this man.
I drove by a couple times and it's like,
What the? I thought I was seeing things at first.
- [Fan] No, it's been up since your Max Holloway
fight, man. I set
- No way.
Are you looking forward to the fight next week?
- [Fan's Girlfriend] Oh yeah.
- [Fan] Please, are you kidding me?
I got my shirt in my wardrobe in there.
I got your shoes.
You see them right through there.
- [Conor] What, the Reeboks?
- [Fan] Yeah, it says "Champ" on the back.
(laughing)
- I don't even have them, they're re demos.
They are unbelievable, man.
- [Fan] I'm telling you, man.
- Yeah, honestly now that's unbelievable.
I'm going to put on a show for you specifically.
- [Fan] Thank you so much, yeah.
Every Saturday before the fight I put up my cardboard
cutout, I put up the flag, I put up the banner.
And the only thing I can say, and I hope Conor
sees this, is that that feeling he had with Jose Aldo
when he knocked him out and he became the champ,
hands down, that's what I felt like tonight.
Like, that's how amazing it was
and I really hope he sees that.
I think he saw that on my face and there we go again,
see it's going again, but that's the best I can say.
I'm enamored right now, man, I'm shaking.
I'm acting like such a little baby and crying.
(laughing)
- [Conor] I appreciate it, man.
Honestly, I'm glad I could make your day, alright?
I appreciate the support of all the fans out here
and all over the world.
I never take it for granted.
I use it as motivation, so I am extremely grateful
to the fans.
Thank you so much.
- [Fan's Girlfriend] See you. Bye. Thanks.
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Listen to this place.
- [Commentator] Oh, big shot by McGregor!
- [Commentator] Look at the clock.
Ten seconds.
- [Commentator] Can he finish him here?
It's all over!
Conor McGregor is a UFC Interim Featherweight Champion!
- [Commentator] Wow, wow
(crowd cheering)
Wow.
Wow, unbelievable.
He did it.
- Thank you so much for watching.
I made this video because Mr.13forTaylor asked me to.
So, if there's a famous entrepreneur that you want
me to profile next, leave it in the comments
below and I'll see what I can do.
I'd also love to know which of Conor's Top Ten Rules
meant the most to you, is going to have the
biggest impact on your life or your business.
Leave it in the comments and I'll join the discussion.
Thank you so much for watching, continue to believe,
and I'll see you soon.
(jet flying)
There's parents coming in with their kids from like
that height bringing them into the gym.
Their mom and dad by their side, encouraging it.
I was never like that.
That's going to go to the next level
when you have the parents encouraging the dream.
Again, people can say it's barbaric and martial
arts is barbaric, or this game
it's too much.
It's two men beating each other or whatever.
The martial arts life will give you a discipline,
will give you dedication, will give you a drive
that you won't get nowhere else.
So, whatever these kids that come in at that size
with their parents, whatever they decide to do,
whether they decide to conquer the martial arts
world, the fighting game, or whether they want
to go and conquer the business world.
Whatever they decide to do, training for combat sport,
training martial arts will give them that confidence
to go and excel in anything.
So, people can criticize about it all they want,
but the results speak for themselves.
And seeing these little kids coming in this size,
it's good times, good times ahead I see.