The UFC 196 press conference with Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz eminently quotable, and we caught a number of quick lines while live Tweeting the proceedings. It’s far from exhaustive, and we’ll have further stories to come regarding what each had to say in Los Angeles, but here are some of the numerous quotes that came out from both of them:
McGregor: “I’m not the one on steroids, what the fuck are you talking about? Your two boys were on steroids.” – https://t.co/RZjJQroOKu
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McGregor: “I do respect Nate, don’t get me wrong. There’s a lot of pussies in this business, and he is not one of them.”
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Nate to Conor: “Congratulations to you, motherfucker, I’m the show.”
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Conor: “Myself and Nate, we have a similar will. But the will and the skill is not the same.”
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Nate: “I’ll fight at any weight class. I only care about the big fights.”
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McGregor: “If there’s belts on the line I’ll rack them up. If not I’ll rack the checks up. The checks are more important than the belts.”
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McGregor: “I bounced Jose’s head of the canvas like a basketball”
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McGregor to Diaz: “I got world titles and multi-millions of dollars, you got $20,000 to show in your last fight”
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McGregor to Diaz: “I felt pity on your broke ass, I wanted to make you rich”
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Diaz on UFC negotiations for UFC 196: “They called me, I didn’t ask. They offered me a fuck load of money and I said I want more.”
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Diaz on UFC 196 payday: “I’ll probably buy a whole bunch of nice shit”
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McGregor added that he was “motivated by movement and money. Movement of the body and movement of the money.”
— MMATorch (@mmatorch) February 24, 2016
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