If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.' — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
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… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
I want to entertain the fans and put on great fights and have 'Fight of the Nights' and have exiting matchups, but… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn't have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
You can't just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you'll just be the same fighter… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
I've put it all on the line every time, win, lose, or draw, and that's what I want to be left behind in my… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share
