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.
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.
There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.
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