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Wrestling Quotes by Dustin Poirier

54 Wrestling quotes by Dustin Poirier

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Dustin Poirier wants fights that excite the crowd and believes he can become a world champion. He talks about moving to a higher weight class for better chances and hates having an 'interim' label on his record. He also stresses outsmarting opponents and the addictive grit of fighting.

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

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I've always fought the best guys.

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Fighting is what I do.

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

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

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I have a pretty high fight IQ.

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I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

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Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me,

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

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

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You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

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

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

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I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.

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I feel like everybody's who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal - to be the…

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I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.

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Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.

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

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

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Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

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

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Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

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Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of hard fights…

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I feel like I've always been a great fighter but I'm learning the patience part of it and not getting overwhelmed with…

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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…

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I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to…

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There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and…

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Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk…

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Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and…

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I've never pulled out of a fight. I've never missed weight.

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Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.

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

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I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!

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

I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.

Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I…

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top…

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

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

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

I'm not really chasing rematches.

I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.