Top 101 Dustin Poirier Quotes

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he’s just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don’t think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

I’m never going to go down to 145 again.

Fighting is what I do.

I never took the easy route.

I try to work on the small things.

I really work hard to stay in great shape and make weight.

Any time Nate Diaz fights, I’m tuning in, I promise you.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

Now I’m with the American Top Team, I’m a better fighter, I’m a more patient fighter, I’ve improved in every aspect.

I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!

Just because I haven’t fought wrestlers doesn’t mean I’m not wrestling in every camp.

I’m not a frontrunner. I’m a complete fighter.

I’m the kind of guy that grows, and that’s what I do everyday in the gym. Work on new stuff and stay relevant.

I’m familiar with adversity.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job – construction, concrete. All we know is work. It’s a physical culture.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I’m scared of it. It’s a very weird thing.

I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!

There’s always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn’t really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

I’m a complete fighter and I’m not scared, I’m very willing to use every part of the game to get the win by any means necessary.

I feel like everybody’s who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal – to be the UFC world champion.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It’s just in my blood.

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.

I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.

You can’t just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you’ll just be the same fighter every time, just more experienced.

I’m proud of everything I accomplished in this sport.

I’m proud of everything I accomplished in this sport.

I’m not a frontrunner. I’m a complete fighter.

I’ve said it before, I’m not a matchmaker, I don’t call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.

I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

I’m not the same fighter I used to be.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

I’m not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.

I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145.

Winning solves everything.

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145.

Now I’m with the American Top Team, I’m a better fighter, I’m a more patient fighter, I’ve improved in every aspect.

You can’t just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you’ll just be the same fighter every time, just more experienced.

Destiny doesn’t make mistakes.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don’t stay seven years without evolving. It doesn’t happen.

I’m not fighting just to fight. I’m fighting to be the world champ.

Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn’t have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would sleep in broken-down motels and I would fight the next day. Just me and her.

If I would have thought like fans think, I’d be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

I’m never going to go down to 145 again.

Those deep, dog fights – I love that. That’s why I fight.

My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there’s a lot of poverty.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

It’s not hard to look great against a guy who isn’t moving a lot.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I’m scared of it. It’s a very weird thing.

I’ve just been in a lot of big fights, and I’ve been in some good spots and some bad spots.

The way I feel, I’m the best in the world.

All weight cuts are hard.

I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

I don’t see myself ever going up to 170.

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I’m going to stop him. I don’t know how it’s going to happen, but I’m either going to knock him out or I’m going to submit him. I’m going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I want to fight guys I’m excited to watch fight.

Fighting is what I do.

No matter where I came from, I’m a fighter.

I feel like I’ve always been a great fighter but I’m learning the patience part of it and not getting overwhelmed with emotion and adrenaline and going out there and brawling like a maniac.

If a champ has to take a long layoff then I think that’s the only time interim titles should be introduced to the division.

Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of hard fights and did a lot of things right to move up the rankings and I have to abandon all that moving to 155 starting fresh.

They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.

I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight.

I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief – everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

When I’m in south Florida I’m training, resting, training. I’m working on my craft out here, very tediously. That’s what I come out here for.

I’m not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.

I’ve been the underdog my whole life.

It’s MMA. Anything can happen. Nothing’s for sure.

My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world.

I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.

Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.

If you’re training for a fight, you’re going to be pretty much, there’s going to be days where you’re hurting.

I’m not a matchmaker, I don’t know the logic behind the decisions they make.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job – construction, concrete. All we know is work. It’s a physical culture.

I never took the easy route.

When I’m in south Florida I’m training, resting, training. I’m working on my craft out here, very tediously. That’s what I come out here for.

I don’t see myself ever going up to 170.

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I’ve learned and kept rolling, that’s what’s made me the fighter I am today.

I’m not really chasing rematches.

There’s always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn’t really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough.