i have seen a man die in this game we
are bled on the battlefield yeah the
fight game is full of sharks
but i'm the [ __ ] way making sure your
internal dialogue and your internal
belief in yourself is strange i truly
know yourself you can know orders
so i know what way i feel i know the way
that man feels secret and uh
preaching the law of attraction
you believe in it you will succeed
from what got me to where i am um
and where i continue to go and where i
will continue to go is an insane
work ethic
you can only put in that amount of work
if you were doing something that you are
passionate about
and that's what i have engaged my entire
life's work in
you cannot fully commit to something if
you are not passionate about it so you
must
look at your surroundings at the things
you were involved in
and ask yourself are you truly
passionate about these things that you
truly want to put every ounce of your
being into these things
and i am blessed truly truly blessed by
something i am not sure what it is but i
am blessed
that i was able to find my passions
these avenues that the fight game has
opened up for me i'm going down them at
100 mile an hour
with no breaks and full confidence in
what lies ahead
and and great things are happening so
i'm very very blessed and very motivated
still
i have gone through times in my in my in
my young career
of lapses in motivation and seeking that
energy and
but you know i'm not supposed to be here
where i come from it's
like it's on my whiskey proper number 12
i come from a place dublin 12.
it is a hard-working town a small little
a little suburb it has it's good and it
has plenty of bad but
i always like to focus on the good
because the good shines true
where i come from we're not supposed to
climb to these heights we're told that
it's instilled in us
and i wanted to break that mold and and
pave the way open up parts
you know like driving on them
towards them building sites and i'm just
a young kid first you're apprentice
plumber on a building site they're the
guy that goes to make the tea
the guy that goes and gets the the
copper pipes from the storehouse and
carries it up
it's the hard work that that's not
respected and not
admired i was on them building so it's
cold and damp and i was like looking
around
at fully qualified people on the site
and their postures
not right that was not me
you know i knew i could do something
better i knew i had something in me
i was training for the fight game but no
one in ireland
had made it in the fight game an
irishman in the ufc was
literally and i mean literally laughed
at
we were laughed at when i said we were
going to get to the usa my myself and my
team are going to get to the ufc
never mind get a win never mind even get
a win in the ufc
then when i built then win the second
belt you know it's i've just used all
that
that fuel that i'm not supposed to do it
but i'm gonna do it and i'm gonna
outwork everyone that says
i cannot do it and that's what i did and
that's how i rose open
long may it continued
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so my sister when i was a young kid at
around
15 years of age unsure where i was going
came to me with a book
the secret and uh preaching the law of
attraction
i wasn't interested i was almost
laughing at it but then i
she kept on me with it and i eventually
watched a movie on it
and read some books on it and then it
started to resonate with me like to to
keep positive and have belief in where
you're going and
and you're able to you can almost
visually
create your entire world not almost you
actually can
i'm going to do that and i will do that
and then that's when i'd be going to
practice it
i practiced it i used to drive we used
to drive and my girlfriend we used to
drive to a food place
in like a shopping mall in ireland and
it was a very busy shopping mall
and i'd all like i would practice like
little parts of it like when we were
driving into the shopping mall
the car park i would always visualize
that the car parked space
right at the front door would be empty
for me waiting for us to pull up
and sometimes i'd get it and sometimes i
wouldn't get it you know but when i when
i got it i
celebrated like i just won my double
world title
you know when i kept building on that
and and and i got better at it and
it became i became so damn good at it
that i was able to go into belts
against undefeated fighters with insane
fighting legacies
and i was able to go in front of the
world and tell the world
i'm gonna knock this man out with this
exact shot at this exact time
and i've done it back to back to back
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see i was visualizing before i even knew
about it obviously soccer is huge in
ireland than the uk
and it was my first love most certainly
i used to sneak out of the house late at
night and i used to be a little grass
patched by my home
and i would pl i take the football out
and play on the grass patch on my own
and i would kick the ball against the
wall and when i kicked the ball against
the wall i would imagine it was
a goal and i scored a goal and i would
run off and i would visualize a
screaming arena cheering me on
and they were my first visions of of
selling out arenas and
and you know and doing these type of
things although although it didn't end
up in the football game i ended up in a
similar one so it all worked out on it
and it was all true visual visualization
so
i was just a young kid with a dream and
a belief in himself
and for many times i was laughed at not
believed him but you know what
nothing external can can can defeat the
internal the only thing that can take
someone down or break you down is
internal
nothing external is strong enough it's
just about making sure your internal
dialogue and your internal belief in
yourself is strong enough that it can
withstand the external
the external is there you've got to
accept it you've got to embrace it
you've got to understand it and be aware
of it
but don't let it seep into you into your
internal dialogue
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i am i don't know at all i am only i'm
up and down and grown with this i'm
trying to continue to learn it's a daily
daily occurrence
not to let that external infiltrate
infiltrate my
internal and that's what i'm trying to
do right now because i have let it
infiltrated at times
who am i i know who i am i am an irish
animal a proper
irish animal my career is a career i've
never been done before
no irish man has done what i have done i
opened the pathways for my people
we came steaming through the door thanks
to my thanks to my belief in my hard
work
god put my people on i put my nation on
the map although we are known as a
fighting irish
in boxing in boxing terms we have a rich
history in boxing but not in mixed
martial arts
true fighting a full fight we had zero
history zero impact
we were almost looked down upon the uk
scene had risen up
there was cement there was many stars of
course the brazilians they invented they
invented the sport valley tudor no holds
barred fighting
then the americans took it franchising
into the ufc and built it up to what it
was
so the americans and the brazilians
dominated the sport and
and then the uk was rising up and the
irish were just the irish
but i i knew different no more exactly
that's awesome now now my nation's flag
is on the ufc belt they released a new
belt i won the two bells
the first two ever done at the first
webinar and still the only two ever do
it
unified you know for so long like in my
late 20 mid to late 20s when i started
to
acquire wealth and acquire money i was
fascinated with materialistic things i
would buy myself cars watches
but i i like i i switched off of that
now it's like i
i realized i was spending things on
material items and not
things on myself on my being on on my
fitness on my health
i've switched that completely ali was
one of my first
heroes in combat i watched documentaries
on him i read books on him
but even before i engaged in combat
sport i was interested in like the
wrestling
side of things which is a lot more show
yeah and then obviously muhammad ali was
a different animal because he was doing
it for real
yeah wrestling's not really for real you
know but muhammad ali was doing it for
real
and he was captivating the audience he
was entertaining and he had passion and
conviction
and i was just a young kid watching this
and then what got me into combat sport
originally was as i grew older and began
venturing outside my home
and outside my estate again like i said
dublin 12 it's a wild l town you've got
to be able to fight you've got to be
able to defend yourself so when i would
when i ventured out conflict began
happening and i wanted to be prepared
for that and be able to have you know
that's that's false toughness the tough
guy doesn't
last in this position that's that's
false i looked at the tough guys back
then
yeah where are they now yeah they're not
tough no more yeah they ain't tough
in their mother's box room you know what
i'm saying so
um i was not necessarily a tough
grown-up but i was i was a hard worker
and i was and i was
i was smart that's what i was that's
what i was and which beat
toughness any day of the week twice on
sunday so i
i knew what i needed to do i needed to
learn combat sport
i needed to learn martial arts gain
confidence in
in surroundings and then rise up and
that's what i've done
coming up i look at it's not trash talk
to me although it has
in a way become that i look at the
opponent
i look you know you know what know
yourself to no orders that's a bruce lee
quote if you truly know yourself you can
know orders
so i know what way i feel i know what
way that man feels
i know what i can say to push his
buttons i know i know what he's thinking
i know what he's afraid of i know
his worries and i and i um put them
in under the spotlight i put them out
there i get them thinking about it
i made a jose aldo an undefeated
champion he was 28 years
of age at the time i made him feel like
he was an old man but he was 28 years of
age
i went in i told him what shot i was
going to knock him out and i knocked him
out with that shot
so it's all psychological to be honest
you've got to be able to control your
breathing and control your emotions in
there
again like i said sometimes i've been up
and down on it sometimes i've riled up
too much to it
i'm only young town you know i'm still
learning and learning the game yeah and
i don't
claim to know it all but what i do know
i know it damn well you know and i'm
continuing to learn and continue to push
on
and and that's where i'm at now so
more external doubt i love it give it to
me give me all that they'll tell me i
can't do something tell me i'm not gonna
i'm not gonna cross over and make that
jump into a completely new sport not
only against some
some not some random guy against the
damn best
i'm very confident now when my my engine
is keep building as long as i keep on it
and try and not not slip and and keep
keep motivated i think like
your lack of commitment is almost an
insult to the people who believe in you
and that's what i'm trying to tell
myself there's people in
there's people who believe in me so this
is what i'm telling myself right now
today there's people that believe in me
and and me having this
half commitment it's it's it's not it's
not a [ __ ] i am it's not for my people
it's not the people who
who believe in me deserve and i want to
you know i want to i want to give back
to the people who believe in me and
and give them that belief you know and
prove that belief correct so
that's where we're at now and let's see
where it goes let's let's yeah
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i have seen a man die in this game i i
was ringside i caught i cornered a man
i am humble in victory or defeat no
matter what
it's it's a sport at the end of the day
a gruesome sport but it's a it's a sport
so i respected i was defeated on the
night all in is a term i like to use in
my ventures
all in we've got to be all in our
adventures i've i am
i'm all in on my whiskey i'm all in on
on my clothing my
fitness my fitness regime the mcgregor
pass program
i am all in on the fight game i'm i just
want my worth
you know we're in there's a lot of
politics in the game the fight game is
full of sharks
but i'm the [ __ ] whale it's hard work
that's it
hard [ __ ] walk you put it in you
believe in it
you will succeed and that's it i am
living proof if you want to look at a
man
who has clawed his way fought with
every ounce of his being to get to where
he is
you're looking at him right here you
know my family is a is a great family
my i i have a loving family my mother my
father my two sisters
but my lineage the mcgregor lineage we
are bled on the battlefield we
you can trace my lineage back to the
highlands where we fought
invaders off of our land with with our
with our family sword the claymore it's
wrapped in
the trapped sheepskin and i have it
hanging on the banisters of my stairs
just to remind me of where i come from
and who i am we are warriors we are
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fighters
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