Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Dustin Poirier

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

I'm not really chasing rematches.

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 champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.

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

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

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

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

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

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.

Winning solves everything.

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

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.

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

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

Those deep, dog fights - I love that. That's why I fight.

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

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

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

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

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.

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

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

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

I've been the underdog my whole life.

Everybody has their own path. Everybody peaks at different times.

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

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

I'm familiar with adversity.

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

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

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

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

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

I don't talk bad about people who I roll with.

I'm not a small guy.

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

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.

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.

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

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

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.

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

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

This sport is a crazy thing, and what happens, it's unpredictable.