Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They're doing great things for European MMA, and they're giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They're vital. I'm forever grateful for the opportunities I got.
Conor McgregorRead
I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.
Interpretation
Putting your full effort into a passion can lead to success and mastery.
In this quote, Conor McGregor emphasizes the importance of dedicating oneself entirely to a chosen path or profession. He suggests that total commitment and hard work in the fight business will eventually lead to success and control over that domain, illustrating a broader principle applicable to any pursuit in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech to a sports team.
Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They're doing great things for European MMA, and they're giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They're vital. I'm forever grateful for the opportunities I got.
I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.
Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
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