“My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It’s just in my blood.” – Dustin Poirier
“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 legacy.” – Dustin Poirier
“I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and what I do for a living.” – Dustin Poirier
“Focus on performance. The outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.” – Dustin Poirier
“Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that’s the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.” – Dustin Poirier
“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
“I want to entertain the fans and put on great fights and have ‘Fight of the Nights’ and have exiting matchups, but at the same time I want to be the undisputed world champion.” – Dustin Poirier
“No matter where I came from, I’m a fighter.” – Dustin Poirier
“I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.” – Dustin Poirier
“Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it’s small injuries. Sometimes it’s lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.” – Dustin Poirier
“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
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“It’s MMA. Anything can happen. Nothing’s for sure.” – Dustin Poirier
“My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
“I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.” – Dustin Poirier
“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.” – Dustin Poirier
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